The Psychology of Death - Hardcover

Robert Kastenbaum

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826113001 ISBN 13: 9780826113009

Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc.,U.S., 2000

Synopsis

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 death 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.

About this title

About the Author:

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: Youth's 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc.,U.S.
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0826113001
• ISBN 13: 9780826113009
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 328