Dual Realities : The Search for Meaning: Psychodynamic Therapy with Physically Ill People (Paperback)

Foreword -- Introduction -- Assessing clients with a serious physical illness or disability for psychodynamic counselling -- Emotional reactions to serious diagnosis -- Living with a life-threatening tumour: in search of meaning and creativity -- Avoiding the issues: the consequences of poorly managed diabetes -- Living in the shadow of death -- "A journey of a thousand miles begins with the first step" -- Working with dual realities: psychological and physical -- What did you say? What did you mean? -- Becoming free -- A life well lived: the challenge of progressive disability -- Who am I, that I might become? The spiritual dimension in work with people who are seriously physically ill -- Inner worlds?outer realities. The dying person in counselling and psychotherapy -- Supervision of counsellors working with seriously physically ill patients