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A matter of death and life
Title
A matter of death and life / Irvin D. Yalom & Marilyn Yalom.
ISBN
9781503613768
1503613763
9781503627772
Publication
Stanford, California : Redwood Press, [2021]
Copyright Notice Date
³2021
Physical Description
xii, 222 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Summary
"A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confronts the loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships--friendship, family, and romantic--as we all age"-- Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 02, 2021
Contents
The vital box
Becoming an invalid
Awareness of evanescence
Why don't we move to assisted living?
Retirement : the precise moment of decision
Setbacks and renewed hopes
Staring at the sun, once again
Whose death is this anyway?
Facing endings
Considering physician-assisted suicide
A tense countdown to Thursday
A complete surprise
So now you know
Death sentence
Farewell to chemotherapy-and to hope
From palliative care to hospice
Hospice care
A soothing illusion
French books
The end approaches
Death arrives
The after-death experience
Life as an independent separate adult
Home alone
Sex and grief
Unreality
Numbness
Help from Schopenhauer
Denial revealed
Stepping out
Indecisiveness
On reading my own work
Seven advanced lesson on the therapy of grief
My education continues
Dear Marilyn.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Psychiatry.
Genre/Form
Autobiographies.
Biographies.
Autobiographies.
Self-help publications.
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