What Are the Themes in the Psychoanalytic Literature on Assisting People With a Terminal Diagnosis? A Thematic Analysis

Abstract Terminal illness and knowledge of imminent death can evoke intensely painful and overwhelming feelings of fear, despair and terror. Accounts in the psychoanalytic literature on work with dying clients are infrequent however much of the material that is available provides the foundation for...

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Main Author: Deane, Barbara (Author)
Other Authors: Puls, Brigitte (Contributor)
Format: Others
Published: Auckland University of Technology, 2013-10-02T19:44:49Z.
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