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Zusatztext Praise for On Death and Dying:'This book is important reading for nurses! doctors! clergy! and others whose work brings them into contact with the dying. It is also recommended to any reader who refuses to believe that the best way to deal with fear is to run away.' - Colin Murray Parkes! from the foreword'All those involved in social work! be they students! practitioners! or teachers should read it; for it concerns loss! and assisting people to deal with losses of one kind or another is the social worker's commonest task. Here is a book that helps them to do this with sensitivity! insight and compassion.' - British Journal of Social Work'This is a book to own but every library should have a copy and every medical and nursing syllabus a place for discussion of death and dying with this as a textbook.' - Nursing Times Informationen zum Autor Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a psychiatrist with a particular interest in end of life care. Especially interested in the care of dying patients! she researched their attitudes to death. Her groundbreaking work! On Death and Dying! identified the 'five stages' that dying people go through as they approach death and this model has been enormously influential over the past forty years. Klappentext The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of loss. Ideal all those with an interest in bereavement, this classic text is reissued with a new introduction looking at its influence on contemporary thought and practice. Zusammenfassung The five stages of grief, first formulated in this hugely influential work forty years ago, are now part of our common understanding of loss. Ideal all those with an interest in bereavement, this classic text is reissued with a new introduction looking at its influence on contemporary thought and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. On the Fear of Death 2. Attitudes Towards Death and Dying 3. First Stage: Denial and Isolation 4. Second Stage: Anger 5. Third Stage: Bargaining 6. Forth Stage: Depression 7. Fifth Stage: Acceptance 8. Hope 9. The Patient’s Family 10. Some Interviews with Terminally Ill Patients 11. Reactions to the Seminar on Death and Dying 12. Therapy with the Terminally Ill ...
