| Description |
1 online resource (248 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Part I. Bearing the unbearable -- part II. Containment and creativity. |
| Summary |
This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. The 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. 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Cancer -- Psychological aspects.
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Cancer -- Psychological aspects. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Burke, Jonathan (Psychotherapist)
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Burke, Jonathan. Topic of Cancer. London : Karnac Books, ©2013 9781780491134 |
| ISBN |
9781780491134 |
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9781782411338 electronic book |
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178241133X electronic book |
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1780491131 |
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9781306190831 |
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1306190835 |
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