ABSTRACT
Every aspect of the lives of psychotherapists, both personal and professional, is deeply affected by death anxieties and death-related issues. Among the many factors that influence a therapist's selection of a psychotherapy modality and theory, the status of his or her death anxiety constellation is of considerable importance. There are some 300 forms of psychotherapy, which can be categorized roughly into some dozen or so major groups. Psychotherapy is concentrated on the healing process, and little time is spent seeking diagnoses that often reflect considerable skill but involve fatal diseases. Therapists also tend to select therapists because of similar needs—frame modifications are very common in their psychotherapy situations. However, in the real world of psychotherapy, many communicative therapists prove to be unable to hold frames secured and to offer sound, validated trigger-decoded interpretations when death-related triggers are at issue. The standard form of communicative psychotherapy allows for this kind of work, and the empowered form greatly enhances it.
