The Topic of Cancer - Burke, Jonathan (Karnac Books, 2013)
COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITOR AND CONTRIBUTORS; FOREWORD; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; PART I BEARING THE UNBEARABLE; CHAPTER ONE Freud's cancer; CHAPTER TWO Understanding the patient with cancer; CHAPTER THREE The emotional impact of cancer on children and their families; CHAPTER FOUR What the illness may reveal; CHAPTER FIVE The ill psychotherapist: a wounded healer; CHAPTER SIX The cancer nurse specialists' caseload: "contending with the fretful elements"; CHAPTER SEVEN On survivorship; CHAPTER EIGHT Palliative care: what, when, and how?
CHAPTER NINE The nature of religious/spiritual concerns in addressing the psychological needs of people with cancerPART II CONTAINMENT AND CREATIVITY; CHAPTER TEN Finding creative expression; CHAPTER ELEVEN The cancer memoir: in search of a writing cure?; INDEX.
This book focuses on our emotional responses to cancer by offering a range of perspectives: psychoanalytic, medical, spiritual and religious, as well as literary. The Topic of Cancer begins with Freud's cancer, widely known of but rarely understood in its historic and analytic context. Psychotherapeutic reflections are then offered on our understanding of the adult and adolescent with cancer. The dilemmas and challenges faced by today's psychotherapist with cancer are explored next and, for the first time in cancer literature, an account of the emotional demands on nurses involved in sensitive