Promoting a Fighting Spirit: Psychotherapy for Cancer Patients, Survivors, and Their Families - Hardcover

Seligman, Linda

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787901903 ISBN 13: 9780787901905

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 1996

Synopsis

Emotions and Cancer

Helps readers understand the important connection between emotions and cancer--and develop the skills needed to provide effective care to cancer patients and their families. With wisdom and compassion, psychologist and cancer survivor Linda Seligman provides practical strategies for helping patients through their trials.

She describes successful treatment techniques such as visualization, meditation, hypnosis, and affirmations. The author also outlines ways to lessen the shock of diagnosis, and temper negative reactions to aversive medical procedures.

About this title

About the Author

LINDA SELIGMAN is full professor at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, where she is in charge of the graduate program in community agency counseling. She also is director of the Center for Counseling and Consultation with offices in Fairfax, Virginia, and Bethesda, Maryland.

From the Back Cover

Helps readers understand the important connection between emotions and cancer?and develop the skills needed to provide effective care to cancer patients and their families. With wisdom and compassion, psychologist and cancer survivor Linda Seligman provides practical strategies for helping patients through their trials.

From the Inside Flap

Promoting a Fighting Spirit helps therapists understand the important connection between emotions and cancer?and develop the skills they need to provide effective psychotherapy to cancer patients and their families. With wisdom and compassion, psychologist and cancer survivor Linda Seligman provides practical strategies for helping patients through their trials.The book offers effective cognitive models and describes successful treatment techniques such as visualization, meditation, hypnosis, and affirmations. The author outlines practical interventions for lessening the shock of diagnosis, and tempering negative reactions to aversive medical procedures, physical and sexual changes, and cancer-related fear and pain. Through descriptions and examples, she explains how to implement a variety of treatment methods.

Edition details

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787901903
• ISBN 13: 9780787901905
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 383