Understanding Death: Development, Pathology, and Techniques

This content explores different aspects of death, including children's understanding, adolescent behaviors, fear of death, and techniques for dealing with mortality. It emphasizes the importance of acknowledging death as a part of life and offers insights on how to handle grief and support individuals in facing their mortality with acceptance.

• Death
• Understanding
• Grief
• Mortality
• Techniques

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1. DEATH: DEVELOPMENT, PATHOLOGY, AND TECHNIQUE Salman Akhtar Professor of Psychiatry Sidney Kimmel Medical College of the Thomas Jefferson University, Training and Supervising Analyst Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia

2. DEATH A fire becomes, not less, but more truly a fire as it burns faster. It s the being consumed that pushes back the darkness, illumines whatever there is of good in our days and nights. It is weren t brief it wouldn t be precious. Let me say it flatly: We are lucky we die, and anyone who pushes away the awareness of death lives but half a life. Allen Wheelis

3. DEATH DEVELOPMENT Children s understanding of death Adolescent counterphobic antics Late midlife awareness of mortality Cultural variety (West vs East)

4. DEATH PATHOLOGY Undue fear of death Idealization and courting of death Addiction to near-death Denial of mortality

5. DEATH TECHNIQUE Discerning the patient s concerns with death Exploring patient s feelings about his or her mortality Helping the patient conceive of a good-enough death Enhancing patient s control over post-death destiny

6. DEATH TECHNIQUE (cont) Handling normal grief Treating of pathological grief Managing special situations