The Psychology of Death: 3rd Edition

The Psychology of Death: 3rd Edition
By Robert Kastenbaum PhD

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
Number Of Pages: 328
Publication Date: 2000-02-07
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0826113001
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780826113009

Product Description:
**Springer Publishing Company is pleased to announce the launch of our Paperback Reprint Program.** In this extensively updated and revised edition, Dr. Kastenbaum continues to examine and expand upon issues of dying and the ways in which we shape and reshape our conceptions of death. 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 dealth anxiety, Terror Management Theory, and Edge Theory, and much more. A major contribution to the literature -- this book is must reading for professionals and students of psychology, thanatology, gerontology, social work, and those working in hospice care.



Table of Contents
The Psychologists Death: A Work in Progress
How Do We Construct Death? A Developmental Approach
Reconstructing Death in Adolescence and Adulthood
Death in the Midst of Life
A Will to Live and an Instinct to Die?
Dying: Toward a Psychological Perspective
Deathbed Scenes
Author Biographies
Robert Kastenbaum, PhD, left a promising career as a skating messenger to enter University of Southern California on a fellowship in philosophy. He emerged as a clinical psychologist, and later served as director of a geriatric hospital before taking up his current responsibilities as professor of communication at Arizona State University. Along the way, he founded International Journal of Aging and Human Development, and Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. He is a past president of the American Association of Suicidology and past chair of the Section on Behavioral and Social Sciences of the Gerontological Society of America. Kastenbaum scripted the National Public Radio series: Essays for the Ear: Youths the Tune, Age the Song. He was a co-editor of Handbook of the Humanities and Aging (Springer Publishing Company, 1992), companion volume to the present book.


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