By Judith Stillion PhD CT, Thomas Attig PhD
Delivers the collective knowledge of premiere students and practitioners within the loss of life and loss of life circulation from its inception to the present.
Written by way of luminaries who've formed the sphere, this capstone ebook distills the collective knowledge of most effective students and practitioners who jointly have approximately a millennium of expertise within the dying and death flow. The e-book bears witness to the evolution of the circulation and provides the insights of its pioneers, eyewitnesses, and significant members prior and current. Its chapters tackle modern highbrow, institutional, and perform advancements in thanatology: hospice and palliative care; funeral perform; demise schooling; and being concerned of the loss of life, suicidal, bereaved, and traumatized.
With a breadth and intensity present in no different textual content on dying, death, and bereavement, the e-book disseminates the contemplating renowned authors William Worden, David Clark, Tony Walter, Robert Neimeyer, Charles Corr, Phyllis Silverman, Betty Davies, Therese A. Rando, Colin Murray Parkes, Kenneth Doka, Allan Kellehear, Sandra Bertman, Stephen Connor, Linda Goldman, Mary Vachon, and others. Their chapters talk about the main major features of early improvement, evaluate very important present paintings, and determine significant demanding situations and hopes for the longer term within the components in their services. a considerable chronology of vital milestones within the modern circulate introduces the ebook, frames the chapters to keep on with, and gives suggestions for extra, in-depth examining. The e-book first specializes in the interdisciplinary highbrow achievements that experience shaped the basis of the sector of thanatology. The part on institutional options encompasses contributions in hospice and palliative care of the death and their households; funeral carrier; and demise schooling. The part on practices addresses ways to counseling and supplying help for people, households, and groups on matters with regards to loss of life, bereavement, suicide, trauma, catastrophe, and caregiving. An Afterword identifies demanding situations and appears towards destiny advancements that promise to maintain, extra improve, and increase the movement.
KEY FEATURES:
- Distills the knowledge of pioneers in and significant members to the modern demise, death, and bereavement movement
- Includes residing witness debts of the movement's evolution and demanding milestones
- Presents the easiest modern pondering in thanatology
- Describes modern institutional advancements in hospice and palliative care, funeral perform, and demise education
- Illuminates most sensible practices in care of the death, suicidal, bereaved, and traumatized
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The fourth, natural, refers to the belief that we are connected to all that is in nature and will go on being a part of that oneness even after death as the elements that make up the body become a part of the natural world. The fifth, experiential, can be achieved while living. For example, he pointed to the immediacy and depth of emotion experienced in orgasmic ecstasy as a form of stepping outside of time and therefore experiencing a piece of immortality. Lifton also suggested that the fear and denial of death may be channeled into violence toward others who disagree with those values we identify with.
He suggested that people in many cultures fail to recognize their relief and unresolved negative feelings toward the deceased. They therefore employ the defense mechanism of 2╇ Know Thyself: Psychology’s Contributions to Thanatology 19 projection, which results in their fearing reprisal from the dead person. In this way, Freud explained many of the taboos he found in multiple cultures against speaking the name of the deceased, using their possessions, and so forth, lest the deceased person return to do them harm.
They view the stories of those who have the experiences as the heart of the matter in building such theories. Existential phenomenologists (prominently Heidegger, Sartre, deBeauvoir, Merleau-Ponty, and Paul Ricoeur) add to accurate description and analysis the 4 I Intellectual Developments element of interpretation of the lived meanings of experiences. Less interested in experiences of coming to know about the world for their own sake, they wonder about experiences of coming to know how to live in the world.