Six Months to Live

By William StansfieldRaul J. CanoJaime S. Colome, et al.

Book Overview

Thirteen is supposed to be a great age--dances, cheerleading, boys--she never thought it would also include cancer. Dawn Rochelle is about to face the toughest fight of her life--a fight she has to win. Otherwise, she has only six months to live.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874060079
• ISBN13: 9780874060072
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: Pages Publishing Group
• Length: 136 Pages
• Weight: 0.21 lbs.
• Age Range: 10 to 13 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 8

Customer Reviews

Reconciling Buddhism and Western Psychotherapy

This is a wonderful book by a practicing psychiatrist, perfect for this point in my life. Based on a deep knowledge of both Buddhism and psychotherapy, Epstein resolves for me the perplexing apparent contradiction between Buddhism's "no-self" and psychotherapy's focus on the Self and its difficulties. Subtle, personally engaging and well-written, it is full of wisdom based on Epstein's broad study,reflection, and his own life...

Highly illuminating

I highly recommend this book for those who question the borderland between spirituality and psychotherapy. As a growth oriented psychotherapist, I have an ongoing curiosity about what defines psychotherapy as different from spiritual growth and realization. This book provides some key understandings of the correlations between buddhist practices and how they can be understood from a psychoanalytical perspective. Both camps...

Giant Step

This is an invaluable book for all therapists. Epstein does a masterful job of connecting analytic thought with Buddhist teachings. He apparently speaks from experience when he discusses the difficulties we all encounter along our paths. Then he goes a step further and shows how these insights can help direct the therapeutic encounter. This is a genuine, sincere, honest expression from the heart. I am very grateful.