Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0887388299 ISBN 13: 9780887388293

Publisher: Routledge, 1990

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Synopsis:

Reprint, with a new introduction (five pages), of the Free Press edition of 1981. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0887388299
• ISBN 13: 9780887388293
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 396
• Editor: Goldberg Jane