Choices for living : coping with fear of dying / Thomas S. Langner.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Langner, Thomas S.

Series:

PATH in psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fear of death.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

xiii, 308 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, [2002]

Summary:

Although many books are written about bereavement, very few are written about the fear of one's own death and most of these focus chiefly on terminal illness. In contrast, this book looks at the ways in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives and how it influences the choices we make and the paths that we follow in life. The author presents a moral hierarchy' of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying.

Contents:

Attitudes toward death

The probable causes of the fear of dying

Creativity

Love

Humor

Intellectualization

Procreation

Obsessive

compulsive behavior

Living life to the hilt, living better, living longer

Group membership

Religion

Mementos and monuments

Counterphobic behavior

Gambling

Dissociation

Repression/denial

Suicide

Projection, killing, and the problem of evil

Summary and conclusions.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (289-298) and index.

ISBN:

0306466074

OCLC:

46394821