A commonsense book of death : reflections at ninety of a lifelong thanatologist / Edwin Shneidman.

Author/creator Shneidman, Edwin S.
Format Book
Publication InfoLanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, ©2008.
Descriptionxvi, 191 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Subjects
Death--Psychological aspects.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 174-178) and indexes.
LCCN 2008021882
ISBN9780742563315 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0742563316 (cloth : alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BF789.D4 S53 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold