Facing death : images, insights, and interventions : a handbook for educators, healthcare professionals, and counselors

227 Pages·2016·26.686 MB·English

by  Bertman, Sandra L.

Facing Death:

Images, Insights,

and Interventions

9781560322238
Facing Death: Images, Insights, And Interventions: A Handbook For Educators, Healthcare Professionals, And
Counselors
Size: 229 x 152mm Spine size: 12 mm Color pages: Binding: Paperback
SERIES IN DEATH EDUCATION, AGING, AND HEALTH CARE
HANNELORE WASS. CONSULTING EDITOR
ADVISORY BOARD
Herman Feifel. Ph.D.
Jeanne Quint Benoliel. R.N .. Ph.D.
Balfour Mount. M.D.
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Bertman-Facing Death: Images. Insights. and Interventions
Brammer-How to Cope with Life Transitions: The Challenge of Personal Change
Clcircn-Bereavement and Adaptation
Corless. Pittman-Lindeman-A/DS: Principles. Practices. and Politics, Abridged Edition
Corless. Pittman-Lindeman-A/DS: Principles. Practices. and Politics. Reference Edition
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Davidson-The Hospice: Development and Administration. Second Edition
Davidson. Linnolla-Risk Factors in Youth Suicide
Degner. Beaton-Life-Death Decisions in Health Care
Doty -Communication and Assertion Skills for Older Persons
Epting. Neimeyer-Personal Meanings of Death: Applications of Personal Construe/ Theory to
Clinical Practice
Haber-Health Care for an Aging Society: Cosi-Conscious Community Care and Self-Care
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Irish. Lundquist. Nelsen-Ethnic Variations in Dying. Death, and Grief: Diversity in Universality
Leenaars. Maltsberger. Neimeyer-Treatment of Suicidal People
Leenaars. Wenckstem-Suicide Prevention in Schools
Leng-Psychological Care in Old Age
Lcviton-Horrendous Death. Health, and Well-Being
Leviton-Horrendous Death and Health: Toward Action
Lindeman. Corby. Downing. Sanborn-Alzheimer's Day Care: A Basic Guide
Lund-Older Bereaved Spouses: Research with Practical Applications
Neimcyer-Death Anxiety Handbook: Research. Instrumentation. and Applicmion
Papadatou. Papadatos-Children and Death
Prunkl. Berry-Death Week: Exploring the Dying Process
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F acing Death:
Images, Insights,
and Interventions
A Handbook for Educators, Healthcare
Professionals, and Counselors
Sandra L. Bertrnan, Ph.D.
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FACING DEATH: IMAGES, INSIGHTS, AND INTERVENTIONS
A Handbook for Educators, Healthcare Professionals, and Counselors
Copyright © 1991 by Sandra L. Bertman. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of
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A CIP catalog record for this book is available from the British Library.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Bertman. Sandra L.
Facing death : images, insights, and interventions : a handbook
for educators, healthcare professionals, and counselors / Sandra L.
Bertman.
p. cm. — (Series in death education, aging, and health care)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1.Thanatology. 2. Death—Psychological aspects. 3. Death in
literature. 4. Death in art. I. Title. II. Series
HQ1073.5.U6B47 1991
306.9—dc20 91.12222
CIP
ISBN 978-0-89116-891-1 (case)
ISBN 978-1-56032-223-8 (paper)
ISBN 978-0-203-76796-2 (eISBN)
I SSN 0275-3510
Death enrJJ a fi(e hut not a refatwnJhip . . .
In loving memory
Freda and Max Borkum
Bess and Edward Bertman
Louise Zelermyer
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Contents
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Preface XI
Chapter I Establishing the Perspective
Temuizal tlfne,•.J in contemporary dOcicty and tbe tue of tbe art.J to
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Terminal Illness 5
Interacting with the Arts: Why and How 5
Notes 8
References 9
Chapter 2 Images: Facing Death II
Tbe zntrodaction o/ critical tbemed tbrou,qb a defection of imaged from tbe
art,•, filerature, and popufnr culture
Theme I: The Art of Dying: The Chosen Death 15
Theme II: Death and Afterlife: Views of Mortality
and Immortality 23
Theme III: Far Worse than the Tumor: Existential
Aloneness 39
Theme IV: Autonomv, Loss of Control, Unmentionable
Feelings, Grief . 55
Theme V: Tolerance for Ambivalence: The Land of the Sick
versus the Land or the Well 67
Theme Vl: The Moment or Death 77
Epilogue: The Birds of Sorrow: A Coexistence 87
Notes 98
References 98
Chapter 3 Responses to the Images 101
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Responses of Junior and Senior High School Students
(Science Award Finalists), West Virginia 103
Vll
II Vlli
Responses of Graduate Students, Lesley College,
Cambridge, MA 107
Responses of Medical Students, University of Massachusetts
Medical School, Worcester, MA 120
Responses of Graduate Nurses, University of l\1\assachusetts
School of Nursing, Boston, MA 145
Most Memorable lmage 150
Responses of Hospice Volunteers, State-Wide Conference,
Massachusetts 152
Discussion 158
Notes 163
Chapter 4 Broadening the Perspective 165
Facing Death: Guidelines for Using the Arts 169
Facing Death: Some Counseling Guidelines 197
Bibliography and Additional Reading 203
Appendix 1 Death Attitude Questionnaire 209
Appendix 2 Facing Death: A Most Memorable Image 211
Appendix 3 Medical School: First-Year Course Syllabus 213
Foreword
Death is no longer a skeleton in the closet due to the efforts of the
modern thanatological movement these past three decades. We are now
heir to an informing knowledge base emerging from clinical discernments
and empirical findings. Contributions to this base, however, have been
fueled essentially by the biological and behavioral sciences. Influence of
the arts and humanities has tended to be peripheral. Dr. Bertman realized
this impoverishment and void about two decades ago. Since then, in vari-
ous national and international fora, she has instructed and sensitized the
thanatological community to the pertinence and richness of materials
available through visual and literary images. The result has been a boon
for patient, death educator, and clinician.
This book represents an advancing systematic exposition of her think-
ing and endeavors in the field. With astuteness and resourcefulness, she
has underscored how the arts can provide not only a vital adjunct in
teaching and counseling for the thanatologist but also serve as an avenue
for self-discovery. She is furnishing us with an educational and therapeu-
tic took of tremendous evocative power for the death educator and coun-
selor in forwarding catharsis and self-knowledge. Findings issuing from
the various populations she describes in the book also suggest possibilities
for developing a more relevant orientation toward contemporary death
and grief.
Dr. Bertman is a superb teacher whose book is germane not only for
the death educator and counselor but for all health-care givers in deepen-
ing their perceptions of the human condition and personal destiny. Its
contribution is summed-up in her own poetic statement-the arts cannot
stay the flights of the birds of sorrow but they can help us to better
appreciate and endure them.
Herman FeifeL Ph.D.
Paycbofogy Service
U.S. Department of Veterana Affaira
Loa Ange!ea, CA
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