The Topic of Cancer: New Perspectives on the Emotional Experience of Cancer PDF
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THE TOPIC OF CANCER THE TOPIC OF CANCER New Perspectives on the Emotional Experience of Cancer Edited by Jonathan Burke Foreword by Brett Kahr “Beach Roses” from Atlantis by Mark Doty. Copyright © 1995 by Mark Doty. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers. “Beach Roses” taken from Atlantis by Mark Doty. Published by Jonathan Cape. Reprinted by permission of The Random House Group Limited. First published in 2013 by Karnac Books Ltd 118 Finchley Road London NW3 5HT Copyright © 2013 to Jonathan Burke for the edited collection, and to the individual authors for their contributions. The rights of the contributors to be identified as the authors of this work have been asserted in accordance with §§ 77 and 78 of the Copyright Design and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A C.I.P. for this book is available from the British Library ISBN-13: 978-1-78049-113-4 Typeset by V Publishing Solutions Pvt Ltd., Chennai, India Printed in Great Britain www.karnacbooks.com To all whose lives are touched by cancer Gracious words are a honeycomb, sweet to the soul and healing to the bones. —Proverbs 16:24 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS xi ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS xiii FOREWORD xix Brett Kahr PREFACE xxv INTRODUCTION xxxi Jonathan Burke PART I: BEARING THE UNBEARABLE CHAPTER ONE Freud’s cancer 3 Martin Schmidt vii viii CONTENTS CHAPTER TWO Understanding the patient with cancer 27 Dorothy Judd CHAPTER THREE The emotional impact of cancer on children and their families 49 Anthony Lee and Jane Elfer CHAPTER FOUR What the illness may reveal 65 John Woods CHAPTER FIVE The ill psychotherapist: a wounded healer 77 Judy Parkinson CHAPTER SIX The cancer nurse specialists’ caseload: “contending with the fretful elements” 93 Anne Lanceley CHAPTER SEVEN On survivorship 109 Adrian Tookman, Faye Gishen, and Jane Eades CHAPTER EIGHT Palliative care: what, when, and how? 125 Robert Twycross CHAPTER NINE The nature of religious/spiritual concerns in addressing the psychological needs of people with cancer 141 Jonathan Wittenberg PART II: CONTAINMENT AND CREATIVITY CHAPTER TEN Finding creative expression 159 Carole Satyamurti CONTENTS ix CHAPTER ELEVEN The cancer memoir: in search of a writing cure? 177 Anne Karpf INDEX 203
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