Death Anxiety and Clinical Practice

Robert Langs

• Foreword , Death Issues: Basic Perspectives , A ubiquitous but elusive dread , Death themes, manifest and latent , Death anxiety and psychotherapy , Death issues in the clinical situation , Observing and formulating , The emotion-processing mind , Death and the two systems of the mind , Death Issues and the Patient , Death anxiety and the psychotherapy patient , How patients deal with death-related triggers , Selection principles and mental defences , Psychological defences , Communicative defences , The patient, the frame, and issues of death , Death issues and the therapist , Death anxiety and the psychotherapist , How therapists defend against death anxiety , Death anxiety and problems of technique