Shocked by the fact that, in the Netherlands, psychiatric
patients are considered potentially appropriate candidates for
physician-assisted suicide, Olevitch examines the research and data
and finds that, even in the United States, the situation is
threatening. She describes how the rhetoric of the assisted-suicide
movement can confuse potential suicide victims and their helpers,
and how surrogate medical decisions are a growing threat in the
lives of incompetent patients. Olevitch argues the assisted-suicide
movement is based not on the level-headed realism its advocates
claim, but on a lack of information about up-to-date ways of
bringing about psychological wellness, on a misguided panic about
finances, a phobic view of medical procedures, a lack of
understanding of the support needed by average medical patients,
and a misguided belief in superficial safeguards.
Olevitch describes how Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy and
Cognitive Behavior Therapy can be used to help terminally ill or
disabled people overcome their profound depression. Another
cognitive focus is added as she presents material answering
questions including what patients are really thinking when they
request assisted suicide or when they decline medical procedures.
Well-known psychologist Albert Ellis says of the volume, Carefully
read this unusual book and see how it can be useful to you, whether
you are a physician, a mental health professional, or an
unfortunate patient
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