Table of Contents

Introduction: Treatment Overview a. General Guidelines
b. Intervention Purpose and Goals
c. Intervention Overview
d. How to Use the Manual 1. Session 1. Concepts & Sources of Meaning: Introductions and Meaning 2. Session 2. Cancer & Meaning: Identity Before and After Cancer Diagnosis 3. Session 3. Historical Sources of Meaning: Life as Legacy that has been given [past] and Life as Legacy that one lives [present] and gives [future] 4. Session 4. Attitudinal Sources of Meaning: Encountering Life's Limitations 5. Session 5. Creative Sources of Meaning: 'Creativity, Courage & Responsibility 6. Session 6. Experiential Sources of Meaning: Connecting with Life 7. Session 7. Transitions: Reflection & Hopes for Future References
Handouts
Exercises
Homework

About the Author

WB: Chair, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences; Chief, Psychiatry Service, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center; SP: Psychologist, City of Hope National Medical Center

Reviews

"Unlike so much literature on existential psychotherapy with its grand theories, this book shows how to work with dying patients step by step. Readers will be rewarded with a new-found confidence when working with dying patients.
Weighted Numerical Score: 100 - 5 Stars!" -- Doody's Health Sciences Review