| Description |
xvi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 174-178) and indexes. |
| Contents |
Act one : excerpts from 1973 Deaths of man -- Introduction -- Death work and stages of dying -- An appropriate death -- Postvention and the survivor-victim -- The postself -- Personal and impersonal aspects of death -- Ambivalence and subintention -- Death and the state -- The death certificate -- The psychological autopsy -- Megadeath : children of the nuclear family -- Afterword -- Intermission : a retrospective review of Deaths of man -- Introduction -- A classic of thanatology / M. Brewster Smith -- Act two : revised thoughts of Deaths of man, thirty-five years later -- Introduction -- One fundamental attribute of death : on and off -- Two basic orientations toward death : mine and yours -- Three stances toward death : intentioned, subintentioned, unintentioned -- Four traditional categories of death : natural, accident, suicide, homicide -- Clarifying equivocal deaths -- A psychological autopsy in a military setting -- An appropriate death : criteria for a good-enough death -- Commonalities of suicide : a cubic model -- The coarsening of death : postvention -- The postself : survival after death -- Matinee -- Introduction -- "Wednesdays with Ed" : a report by the author's psychotherapist / Ethel Oderberg -- Mourning after. |
| Subject |
Death -- Psychological aspects.
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| ISBN |
0742563316 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780742563315 cloth alkaline paper |
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0765705842 |
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9780765705846 |
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