Group Therapy For Cancer Patients: A Research-based Handbook Of Psychosocial Care (Hardcover)

David Spiegel

ISBN 10: 0465095658 / ISBN 13: 9780465095650

Verlag: Basic Books, New York, 2000

Beschreibung

Hardcover. This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings. Spiegel and Classen introduce mental health professionals to the awareness as well as the tools they will need to facilitate groups coping with existential crises. The result is a model for helping that actually helps. Expanding on David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings, this guide for mental health professionals introduces the tools needed for groups coping with existential crises. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780465095650

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Group Therapy For Cancer Patients: A Research-based Handbook Of Psychosocial Care (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Basic Books, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0465095658
• ISBN-13: 9780465095650
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: 1. Auflage
• Zustand: new

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Inhaltsangabe

This extraordinary resource celebrates and expands on Dr. David Spiegel's discovery that a shared intimacy with mortality creates very different concerns in the patient from those that apply in conventional settings. Spiegel and Classen introduce mental health professionals to the awareness as well as the tools they will need to facilitate groups coping with existential crises. The result is a model for helping that actually helps.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

David Spiegel, M.D. (Professor, Stanford School of Medicine), is a psychiatrist and author known for the study in which this book is rooted and for his related work on dissociation and hypnosis. Catherine Classen, Ph.D. (Professor, Stanford School of Medicine), collabourates with him on researching the benefits of group psychotherapy and conducts workshops for cancer patients internationally.