Facing cancer and the fear of death : a psychoanalytic perspective on treatment / edited by Norman Straker.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Where we are now : the avoidance of death, its consequences to our patients, families, medical students, young physicians / Norman Straker -- A psycho oncology fellow's perspective on facing death / David Yuppa and Norman Straker -- Confronting the fear of death : trying to detoxify / Norman Straker -- Two memoirs / Dan Birger, Hillel Swiller -- The denial of death by psychoanalysts / Norman Straker -- Finding meaning in death : terror management among the terminally ill / Molly Maxfield, Tom Pyszczynski and Sheldon Solomon -- The psychoanalytic literature on the treatment of dying patients / Norman Straker -- An update in the psychoanalytic treatment of cancer patients facing death / Norman Straker -- "That the darkness is about to pass" the treatment of a dying patient / Abby Adams Silvan -- Guidelines to live by and rules to break / John W. Barnhill -- "Titration of psychotherapy for patient and analyst" / Alison C. Phillips -- Psychotherapy with a hospitalized patient dying of cancer / Philip Luber -- Being a cancer patient in analysis, while continuing to work as an analyst / Patricia Plopa.