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The Denial of Death
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The Denial of Death as mentioned in this paper is an answer to the "why" of human existence, which sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.Abstract:
Winner of the Pulitzer prize in 1974 and the culmination of a life's work,The Denial of Death is Ernest Becker's brilliant and impassioned answer to the "why" of human existence. In bold contrast to the predominant Freudian school of thought, Becker tackles the problem of the vital lie -- man's refusal to acknowledge his own mortality. In doing so, he sheds new light on the nature of humanity and issues a call to life and its living that still resonates more than twenty years after its writing.read more
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Fear of Death, Death Attitudes, and Religious Conviction in the Terminally Ill:
TL;DR: A significant curvilinear relationship emerged between this death perspective and FOD, suggesting that beliefs are a less critical determinant of death fear than is the certainty with which these beliefs are held.
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Fear of Death, Mortality Communication, and Psychological Distress Among Secular and Religiously Observant Family Caregivers of Terminal Cancer Patients
TL;DR: Fostering morality communication between secular caregivers and patients would appear to be one means of reducing the likelihood of clinically significant psychological distress, however, this may be insufficient among religiously observant caregivers, for whom fear of death may first need to be redressed.
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Of Trophies and Pillars: Exploring the Terror Management Functions of Short-Term and Long-Term Relationship Partners
TL;DR: Examination of dating preferences in the context of mortality salience showed that under MS, self-esteem-relevant constructs became spontaneously accessible in short-term dating contexts, whereas worldview- relevant constructs became spontaneous accessible in long-termdating contexts.
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“One Percenters”: Black Atheists, Secular Humanists, and Naturalists
TL;DR: One percenters view human nature and destiny (necessity and historical contingency) through an anthropological rather than a theological lens as mentioned in this paper, and they are the dialectical other of theism and conventional forms of religion.
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The birth of client-centered therapy: Carl Rogers, Otto Rank, and "the beyond."
TL;DR: The client-centered therapy was developed by Carl Rogers as discussed by the authors, who became infected with Rankian ideas and concluded by the end of his life that there is a realm "beyond" scientific psychology, a realm he came to prize as "the transcendent, the indescribable, the spiritual".