When Professionals Weep: Emotional and Countertransference Responses in End-of-Life Care (Series in Death, Dying, and Bereavement)

Front cover......Page 1
CONTENTS......Page 10
About the Editors......Page 14
Contributors......Page 16
Series Editor's Foreword......Page 20
Foreword......Page 22
Preface......Page 26
PART I: Introduction......Page 30
CHAPTER 1. When Our Personal Selves Influence Our Professional Work: An Introduction to Emotions and Coutnertransference in End-of-Life Care......Page 32
PART II: Special Issues in End-of-Life Care......Page 40
CHAPTER 2. Suffering and the Caring Professional......Page 42
CHAPTER 3. Caregiving of the Soul: Spirituality at the End of Life......Page 56
CHAPTER 4. The Seduction of Autonomy: Countertransference and Assisted Suicide......Page 68
CHAPTER 5. Futility and Beneficence: Where Ethics and Countertransference Intersect in End-of-Life Care......Page 84
CHAPTER 6. Client, Clinician, and Supervisor: The Dance of Parallel Process at the End of Life......Page 104
PART III: Specific Populations and Settings......Page 118
CHAPTER 7. The Influence of Culture and Ethnicity on End-of-Life Care......Page 120
CHAPTER 8. Torture, Execution, and Abandonment: The Hospitalized Terminally Ill and Countertransference......Page 134
CHAPTER 9. Surviving the Holocaust Only to Face Death Again: Working with Survivors at the End of Life......Page 150
CHAPTER 10. The Horror and Helplessness of Violent Death......Page 168
CHAPTER 11. Professionalism and Our Humanity: Working with Children at the End of Life......Page 186
PART IV: Personal-Professional Reflections......Page 198
CHAPTER 12. When the Face across the Room Reflects My Own: On Being a Psychotherapist and a Bereaved Parent......Page 200
CHAPTER 13. Before and After My Fiancee's Death: Beliefs about Rational Suicide and Other End-of-Life Decisions......Page 218
CHAPTER 14. Complex Bonds: A Personal-Professional Narrative......Page 232
PART V: Implications for Practice: Models to Address Countertransference in End-Of-Life Care......Page 248
CHAPTER 15. The Respectful Death Model: Difficult Conversations at the End of Life......Page 250
CHAPTER 16. Emotional Barriers to Discussing Advance Directives: Practical Training Solutions......Page 266
CHAPTER 17. A Group Intervention to Process and Examine Countertransference near the End of Life......Page 284
PART VI: Conclusion......Page 296
CHAPTER 18. The Journey Inside: Examining Countertransference and Its Implications for Practice in End-of-Life Care......Page 298
INDEX......Page 314
Back cover......Page 334