How to Cope With a Fatal Illness: The Rational Management of Death and Dying

By Albert Ellis and Michael Abrams

Famed psychotherapist Albert Ellis, and psychologist Michael Abrams show how the dying person can stave off depression and seize what opportunities for enjoyment are still available. Even when terminal cancer, AIDS, or other death-dealing afflictions strike, people have choices and they can learn how to cope, and to enjoy their remaining days. Shows how to deal with guilt and anger and put an end to hysteria. Reveals how friends and loved ones who panic over impending death may harmfully influence the one they grieve for, to impose needless suffering, and may foster terror and withdrawal from healthy involvements. Their heartwarming stories of successful coping by the celebrated and the obscure offer the reader comfort and aid at a time when both are sorely needed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569800057
• ISBN13: 9781569800058
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: Barricade Books
• Length: 284 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Practical and sensitive help for people facing acute illness

This book is pleasantly free of jargon and psychological intricacy. Instead it uses lay language and examples to demonstate that fatal and life threatening illnesses need not always lead to despair. Ellis and Abrams make the application of cognitive behavioral techniques readily attainable. Both authors are psychologists who have worked with large number of people who have faced death. Their experience is apparent in this work