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Hope and Mortality - Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV (Paperback)
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Hope and Mortality - Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV (Paperback)
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AIDS has humbled us. Thus observes editor Mark Blechner in
introducing readers to this powerful collection of essays on
psychodynamic approaches to AIDS. It is the disease, Blechner tells
us, that "has forced us to rethink our relation to sickness and
health, mortality, sexuality, drug use, and what we consider
valuable in life." In the chapters that follow, experienced
clinicians shatter myths about the inapplicability of
psychoanalysis to work with AIDS patients. In addition to setting
forth general principles involved in working with patients with
serious illness, Hope and Mortality explores the wide range of
therapeutic issues that have arisen in the wake of AIDS. Among the
topics of individual chapters: working with children whose parents
have AIDS; working with AIDS patients in an inner-city hospital;
disability, dementia, and other realities of late-stage AIDS;
treating someone who becomes HIV-positive while in therapy; leading
a support group for gay men with AIDS; confronting fears of HIV in
the "worried well"; and coming out of the closet as a heterosexual
while running a bereavement group for gay men. Most poignant of all
are chapters in which therapists examine how they have been
transformed by treating people with AIDS. Here contributors
candidly discuss how their attitudes toward death have shaped, and
in turn been shaped by, their clinical work. They tell of
recovering near-death memories, of questioning their reliance on
traditional medicine, and of feeling the numbing effects of
multiple loss with their patients. The AIDS epidemic has become so
widespread that every clinician must learn about the disease and
the psychological issues it raises. Hope and Mortality provides an
illuminating exploration of these issues and raises profound
questions about the overall aims of psychotherapy. It will instruct
and challenge all mental health professionals, and provide hope and
enlightenment to anyone dealing with a life-threatening condition.
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