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This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering
a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and
religious, as well as literary. Once suppressed, akin to a taboo,
the topic of cancer is now very much in the public consciousness.
The prevalence of the disease and well-publicised medical advances
in its treatment demand it. Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's
cancer, widely known of but rarely understood in its historic and
analytic context. Psychotherapeutic reflections are then offered on
our understanding of the adult and adolescent with cancer, and the
challenges of sustaining a thoughtful presence in the face of the
trauma experienced when a child is diagnosed with cancer, and
during treatment. The dilemmas and challenges faced by today's
psychotherapist with cancer are explored next and, for the first
time in cancer literature, an account of the emotional demands on
nurses involved in sensitive, intimate care. With an increasing
number of people living longer with cancer,
aEUROoesurvivorshipaEURO and palliative care are the focus of the
chapters that follow.
This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering
a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and
religious, as well as literary. Once suppressed, akin to a taboo,
the topic of cancer is now very much in the public consciousness.
The prevalence of the disease and well-publicised medical advances
in its treatment demand it. Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's
cancer, widely known of but rarely understood in its historic and
analytic context. Psychotherapeutic reflections are then offered on
our understanding of the adult and adolescent with cancer, and the
challenges of sustaining a thoughtful presence in the face of the
trauma experienced when a child is diagnosed with cancer, and
during treatment. The dilemmas and challenges faced by today's
psychotherapist with cancer are explored next and, for the first
time in cancer literature, an account of the emotional demands on
nurses involved in sensitive, intimate care. With an increasing
number of people living longer with cancer, "survivorship and
palliative care are the focus of the chapters that follow.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent explores
the psychological challenges faced by the offspring of either
famous or notorious parents. Beginning with parental legacies found
in mythology and the Bible, the book presents a series of case
studies drawn from a range of narrative contexts, selecting
personalities drawn from history, politics, psychoanalysis and
literature, all viewed from an analytic perspective. The concluding
section focuses on the manifestation of this parental shadow within
the field of fine art, as written by artists themselves. This is a
lively and varied collection from a fascinating range of
contributors. It provides readers with a new understanding of
family history, trauma and reckoning screened through a
psychoanalytic perspective, and will appeal to psychoanalysts,
psychotherapists, counsellors and anyone interested in the dynamics
of the family.
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on the Shadow of the Parent explores
the psychological challenges faced by the offspring of either
famous or notorious parents. Beginning with parental legacies found
in mythology and the Bible, the book presents a series of case
studies drawn from a range of narrative contexts, selecting
personalities drawn from history, politics, psychoanalysis and
literature, all viewed from an analytic perspective. The concluding
section focuses on the manifestation of this parental shadow within
the field of fine art, as written by artists themselves. This is a
lively and varied collection from a fascinating range of
contributors. It provides readers with a new understanding of
family history, trauma and reckoning screened through a
psychoanalytic perspective, and will appeal to psychoanalysts,
psychotherapists, counsellors and anyone interested in the dynamics
of the family.
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