Main description:

Robert Langs argues that death anxiety is neglected - in part, because of treatment failures due to countertransference interferences during treatment. He then discusses the technical issues connected with this, whilst introducing the controversial concept that mental activities are derived from immune system activities.

Contents:

Foreword , Death Issues: Basic Perspectives , A ubiquitous but elusive dread , Death themes, manifest and latent , Death anxiety and psychotherapy , Death issues in the clinical situation , Observing and formulating , The emotion-processing mind , Death and the two systems of the mind , Death Issues and the Patient , Death anxiety and the psychotherapy patient , How patients deal with death-related triggers , Selection principles and mental defences , Psychological defences , Communicative defences , The patient, the frame, and issues of death , Death issues and the therapist , Death anxiety and the psychotherapist , How therapists defend against death anxiety , Death anxiety and problems of technique