Choices for Living: Coping with Fear of Dying (Path in Psychology)

although Many Books Are Written About Bereavement, Very Few Are Written About The Fear Of One's Own Death And Most Of These Focus Chiefly On Terminal Illness. In Contrast, This Book Looks At The Ways In Which The Fear Of Death Operates On A Back Burner Throughout Our Lives And How It Influences The Choices We Make And The Paths That We Follow In Life. The Author Presents A 'moral Hierarchy' Of Behavior Used In Coping With The Fear Of Death And Dying. booknews examines The Way In Which The Fear Of Death Operates Throughout Our Lives, Influencing The Choices We Make And The Paths We Follow. Langner (retired, Public Health And Psychiatry Department, Columbia U.) Presents A Moral Hierarchy Of Behavior (including Love, Humor, Intellectualization, Procreation, Religion, Gambling, Etc.) Used In Coping With The Fear Of Death And Dying, Using This To Examine Adaptive And Maladaptive Choices. Suitable For Academics And Professionals In The Fields Of Psychology, Psychiatry, Sociology, Philosophy, Politics, And Related Fields As Well As Reasonably Sophisticated Laypeople. Annotation C. Book News, Inc., Portland, Or (booknews.com) "Although many books are written about bereavement, and focus chiefly on terminal illness, very few are written about the fear of one's own death. In contrast, this book looks at the way in which the fear of death operates on a back burner throughout our lives, and how that influences the choices we make and the paths we follow. The author presents a "moral hierarchy" of behavior used in coping with the fear of death and dying, and uses this as a means of examining adaptive and maladaptive choices.". "This book is written for academics and professionals in psychology, psychiatry, sociology, philosophy, and politics, and is also relevant to a wide general readership."--BOOK JACKET. The inevitability of death, the awareness of one's own mortality, and the degree of one's concern with it have been the subjects of countless poems, songs, essays, books, and paintings.