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Dr. Robert Firestone PhD, Dr. Joyce Catlett PhD, "Beyond Death Anxiety: Achieving Life-Affirming Death Awareness"

""Firestone and Catlett's work is a marvelous achievement .This volume is both innovative and intrepid. Firestone and Catlett challenge prevailing psychoanalytic views on death and they demolish many of the accepted canons of thanatology and existential psychology. This is required reading for anyone who purports to talk about death."

-- Jerry Piven, PhD

Author of Death and Delusion: A Freudian Analysis of Mortal Terror

" towering synthesis of personal and clinical wisdom about death .with a superb overview of the psychology of death and death anxiety .Dr. Firestone draws on the best of the existential-humanistic as well as the psychoanalytic thinkers to address a flourishing path toward self-realization."

-Kirk J. Schneider, PhD

Author, Existential-Integrative Psychotherapy and Awakening to Awe

(From the Foreword)

Firestone and Catlett's groundbreaking volume assists mental health practitioners in helping their clients learn to accept and face their mortality. They describe the many defenses of death anxiety that keep individuals from achieving personal fulfillment, and also suggest methods to cope directly with fears of death; an approach that, ironically, can lead to more satisfaction, more freedom, and a greater appreciation for the gift of life.

This book examines the many destructive consequences of death anxiety, including introversion, depression, and withdrawal from life. Throughout the book, the authors demonstrate the importance of achieving what they call life-affirming death awareness.

Key topics include:

The dawning awareness of death and its impact on the developing child

Literal and symbolic defenses against death anxiety

Separation theory and "the fantasy bond"

Challenging the defenses that interfere with living fully

Microsuicide: the death of the spirit

Breaking with limiting religious dogma and cultural worldviews

With this book, mental health practitioners and their clients will be able to better understand death awareness, overcome the defenses against death anxiety, and ultimately lead richer, more fulfilling lives.

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