TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yalom,Irvin D.
AU  - Yalom,Marilyn
TI  - A matter of death and life
SN  - 9781503613768
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Stanford, California
PB  - Redwood Press
KW  - Yalom, Irvin D.,
KW  - Yalom, Marilyn
KW  - Psychiatrists
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Spouses of cancer patients
KW  - Multiple myeloma
KW  - Patients
KW  - Terminally ill
KW  - Women historians
KW  - Grief
KW  - Autobiographies
KW  - lcgft
KW  - Self-help publications
N1  - The vital box -- Becoming an invalid -- Awareness of evanescence -- Why don't we move to assisted living? -- Retirement : the precise moment of decision -- Setbacks and renewed hopes -- Staring at the sun, once again -- Whose death is this anyway? -- Facing endings -- Considering physician-assisted suicide -- A tense countdown to Thursday -- A complete surprise -- So now you know -- Death sentence -- Farewell to chemotherapy-and to hope -- From palliative care to hospice -- Hospice care -- A soothing illusion -- French books -- The end approaches -- Death arrives -- The after-death experience -- Life as an independent separate adult -- Home alone -- Sex and grief -- Unreality -- Numbness -- Help from Schopenhauer -- Denial revealed -- Stepping out -- Indecisiveness -- On reading my own work -- Seven advanced lesson on the therapy of grief -- My education continues -- Dear Marilyn
N2  - "A co-written project by Irvin and Marilyn Yalom, which describes their heartbreaking journey as a couple married 65 years facing the end of their long partnership. A longtime teacher and therapist on the subject of death anxiety, Dr. Yalom now confronts the loss of his wife and his own mortality. This book will offer wisdom from one of the foremost existential psychiatrists and illuminate the importance of relationships-friendship, family, and romantic-as we all age"--
ER  -