Includes bibliographical references (p. 159-163) and index.
Contents:
Foreword / David M. Black -- Introduction / Ruth Archer -- Assessing clients with a serious physical illneess or disability for psychodynamic therapy / Gwen Evans -- Emotional reactions to serious diagnosis / Celia Nightall -- Living with a life-threatening tumour: in search of meaning and creativity / Dorothee Steffens -- Avoiding the issues: consequences of poorly managed diabetes / Susan Berger -- Living in the shadow of death / Lynda Snowdon -- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step" / Lavinia Chant and Rosemary Dixon-Nuttall -- Working with dual realities: psychological and physical / Linette Hatfield -- What did you say? What did you mena? / Michael Kelly -- Becoming free / Anne Green -- A life well lived: the challenge of progressive disability / Ruth Archer -- Who am I, that I might become? The spiritual dimension in work with people who are seriously physically ill / Judy Parkinson -- Inner worlds--outer realities: the dying person in counselling and psychotherapy / Ruth Archer -- Supervision of counsellors working with seriously physically ill patients / Gertrud Mander.
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