Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients

by Albert Bandura (Editor), Jane Goldberg (Editor)

Overview

When this book first appeared in 1981, it was the first to deal comprehensively with major issues in the psychotherapeutic treatment of cancer patients. It remains the standard volume in the field, drawing together a broad spectrum of work using psychological approaches to treatment of cancer patients and to understanding the disease's sociological and psychological implications. Distinguished contributors from medicine, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychology, social work, family and group therapy, and nursing examine key issues, including the role of aggression in the onset and treatment of cancer; sexual functioning of patients; cancer as an emotionally regressive experience, cancer in children, and the countertransference responses of a therapist working with a cancer patient. This volume will be of particular value to helping professionals who deal with cancer patients and their families.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780887388293
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	01/30/1990
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	396
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Foreword by Hyman Spotnitz, Preface by Jane G. Goldberg, Introduction, Part I: Theoretical Considerations, 1. Experimental Validation of Psychosomatic Aspects of Cancer, 2. Cancer in Myth and Dream, 3. Stress, 4. A Psychosocial Model in the Treatment of Cancer Patients, Part II: Treating Cancer as a Psychosomatic Disease, 5. The Psychopathology of Self-Mutilation in the Life of the Contemporary Patient, 6. Wilhelm Reich’s Cancer Biopathy, 7. Exploring the Relationship Between Personality and Cancer, Part III: The Role of the Practitioner, 8. Cancer and Psychotherapy, 9. Psychoanalytic Therapy with Cancer Patients, 10. Medicine as Food, Part IV: Group Treatment, 11. Aggression and Cancer in Group Treatment, 12. Cancer as a Treatment Destructive Resistance in Group Therapy, 13. In the Leper Colony, Part V: The Family, 14. Psychological Adjustment of Children with Cancer, 15. Cancer and the Family Emotional System, 16. Self-Esteem, Sexuality, and Cancer Management, 17. The Mysterious Case of Ichabod Crane, Index