Main description:

Psychological Care for Cancer Patients: New Perspectives on Training Health Professionals is an innovative work in psychosocial oncology which examines the role of creative expression in the psychological treatment of cancer patients. After having spent five decades in this field, Domenico Arturo Nesci has become a proponent of treatment that values patients as creatives and valiant fighters rather than objects of an ambivalent compassion. This book analyzes this intersection of psychology, the humanities, medicine, and social work through scholarship conceived to help all people whose lives are crossed by cancer: patients, relatives, caregivers, health professionals, and students.

Contents:

Chapter 1Pathos, Defense Mechanisms, and Dreams

Chapter 2Transitional Setting in Psycho-Oncology

Chapter 3Training Health Professionals to Prevent their Burnout

Chapter 4 The Workshop Movies and Dreams

Chapter 5Multimedia Psychotherapy in Oncological Grief

Chapter 6Online Psychotherapy with Cancer Patients