ABSTRACT
When this book first appeared in 1981, it was the first to deal comprehensively with major issues in the psychotherapeutic treatment of cancer patients. It remains the standard volume in the field, drawing together a broad spectrum of work using psychological approaches to treatment of cancer patients and to understanding the disease's sociological and psychological implications. Distinguished contributors from medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, social work, family and group therapy, and nursing examine key issues, including the role of aggression in the onset and treatment of cancer; sexual functioning of patients; cancer as an emotionally regressive experience, cancer in children, and the countertransference responses of a therapist working with a cancer patient. This volume will be of particular value to helping professionals who deal with cancer patients and their families.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |4 pages
Part I: Theoretical Considerations
part |2 pages
Part II: Treating Cancer as a Psychosomatic Disease
part |2 pages
Part III: The Role of the Practitioner
part |2 pages
Part IV: Group Treatment
part |2 pages
Part V: The Family