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TITLE: THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH
AUTHOR: Kastenbaum, Robert ISBN pb: 1 85343 502 3 PAGES: 260 LIST PRICE pb: £16.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: April 2000 (3rd Edition)
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TITLE: THE
PSYCHOLOGY OF DEATH
AUTHOR: Kastenbaum, Robert ISBN pb: 1 85343 502 3 PAGES: 260 LIST PRICE pb: £16.95 ($25.00) PUB DATE: April 2000 (3rd Edition)
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| DESCRIPTION: It is over 20 years
since the publication of Dr Kastenbaum's ground breaking work on the psychology
of death. Now this pre-eminent authority in the field offers a major rethinking
of his pioneering work.
Given today's extended life span, and given that so many of us are now living longer, and more comfortably, with chronic illnesses, the subject of death is one that touches us with increasing power and directness. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death; death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician assisted death and regret theory and denial; new approaches to the role of death anxiety, terror management theory, edge theory, and much more. "So well written and so thoroughly imaginative in its superbly organized exploration of almost every fact of death...." Publishers Weekly
"How much do people think about death as they
go through life? What is it we actually fear when we "fear death"? What
role does our orientation toward death play in our personality and life-style?
How does the orientation develop from youth to old age? How is it influenced
by situation and events? Pursuing questions such as these might be expected
to contribute to self-knowledge. In turn, enhanced self-knowledge might
illuminate the choices we make in our orientations toward death."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Kastenbaum
has been honoured for his contributions to death education and research
by the Association for Death Education and Counselling, and the National
Centre for Death Education. He has served as president of the American
Association of Suicidology
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