Death and dying
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In the trinity of births, marriages, and deaths, only death does not have glossy magazines devoted to stylish consumption at the attendant ceremonies.Abstract:
Death is the new sex, last great taboo in Western society and Western medicine, as Richard Smith discusses in his editorial (p 129). In the trinity of births, marriages, and deaths, only death does not have glossy magazines devoted to stylish consumption at the attendant ceremonies. On the web, of course, …read more
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Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health.
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Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine
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Psychological resources, positive illusions, and health.
TL;DR: A program of research tested the implications of cognitive adaptation theory and research on positive illusions for the relation of positive beliefs to disease progression among men infected with HIV to suggest psychological beliefs such as meaning, control, and optimism may not only preserve mental health in the context of traumatic or life-threatening events but be protective of physical health as well.
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Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: A consensus statement by the American College of Critical Care Medicine
Robert D. Truog,Margaret L. Campbell,J. Randall Curtis,Curtis E. Haas,John M. Luce,Gordon D. Rubenfeld,Cynda Hylton Rushton,David C. Kaufman +7 more
TL;DR: End-of-life care is emerging as a comprehensive area of expertise in the ICU and demands the same high level of knowledge and competence as all other areas of ICU practice.
Book ChapterDOI
The origins of attachment theory
TL;DR: Attachment theory is the joint work of John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth as mentioned in this paper, who used concepts from ethology, cybernetics, information processing, developmental psychology, and psychoanalysis to formulate the basic tenets of the theory.
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The encyclopedia of aging
Abstract: THINKING Young children understand the relation between objects and events in a functional manner, such that the first object is seen to go with or to operate on the second object. Complementarity criteria are an integral component of their thinking. Older children and young adults, by contrast, tend to use similarity criteria. In old age, however, the use of complementarity criteria has been found to increase once again (Reese & Rodeheaver, 1985). The reversal to complementarity in old age is thought to be caused by environmental factors rather than being attributable to changes in competence. Young children as well as the elderly are rarely required to state their thoughts in a specifically prescribed way, and complementary categorization therefore seems more natural, since such categorization groups occur naturally in time and space. Older adults do not neces-
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History of psycho-oncology: overcoming attitudinal and conceptual barriers.
TL;DR: The formal beginnings of psycho-oncology date to the mid-1970s, when the stigma making the word "cancer" unspeakable was diminished to the point that the diagnosis could be revealed and the feelings of patients about their illness could be explored for the first time as mentioned in this paper.