The Topic of Cancer

Name: The Topic of Cancer
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SKU: 9781780491134
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The Topic of Cancer explores the emotional dimensions of cancer through diverse perspectives including psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual, religious, and literary views. It begins with an analysis of Freud's experience with cancer, progressing to psychotherapeutic insights on adults, adolescents, and children facing the disease. The book also examines the emotional challenges faced by psychotherapists and nurses, particularly in intimate care contexts. Later chapters focus on survivorship and palliative care as more individuals live longer with cancer.
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Ideal for readers interested in the psychological and emotional aspects of cancer, healthcare professionals, psychotherapists, nurses, and those seeking a deeper understanding of the personal and therapeutic challenges associated with the disease.

This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. Once suppressed, akin to a taboo, the topic of cancer is now very much in the public consciousness.

Description

The Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's cancer, widely known of but rarely understood in its historic and analytic context. Psychotherapeutic reflections are then offered on our understanding of the adult and adolescent with cancer, and the challenges of sustaining a thoughtful presence in the face of the trauma experienced when a child is diagnosed with cancer, and during treatment.

The dilemmas and challenges faced by today's psychotherapist with cancer are explored next and, for the first time in cancer literature, an account of the emotional demands on nurses involved in sensitive, intimate care. With an increasing number of people living longer with cancer, survivorship and palliative care are the focus of the chapters that follow.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780491134

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 11 December 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Karnac Books

Contributors:

Edited by Jonathan Burke

Audience: General / adult, Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 147.0mm

Height: 230.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 256

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Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction

About the Author

Jonathan Burke first trained in social work and later became a hospital administrator before moving to London where he took up a post as a health planning consultant to UK hospitals and ministries of health abroad. His professional interest in the cancer field began with strategic studies he undertook examining the organisation of services for cancer patients in Cyprus. He is the author of the 'Enfield Cancer Directory', funded by Macmillan Cancer Relief, and for six years he managed the Cancer Life project on behalf of Enfield Disability Action before training as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. He has facilitated a range of seminars on cancer related issues, most recently helping develop the "Topic of Cancer" Seminar Series at the London Centre for Psychotherapy. He now works as a psychotherapist in private practice.