Facing Death: Images, Insights, and Interventions: A Handbook For Educators, Healthcare Professionals, And Counselors
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Book Overview
Facing Death is a unique handbook for educators, healthcare professionals and counselors. It uses materials from the visual arts, excerpts from poetry, fiction, drama, and examples from popular culture to sensitize the reader to important, universal issues confronting the dying, and those responsible for their care.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1560322233
ISBN13:9781560322238
Release Date:June 1991
Publisher:Taylor & Francis
Length:226 Pages
Weight:1.02 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.2" x 8.9"
Customer Reviews
5 ratings
Images galore
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Bertman has done an excellant job of jam packing a book full of paintings, sculpture, line art, cartoons and diagrams on the subject of death. Thoough her focus is mostly on dying the images are relevant, as well, in exploring mortality in general. Bertman has not made the mistake of making her work too theoretical or logocentric. She offers advice for creating art related to dying as well as advice on interpreting such art. This book serves well in a death education course,or for the art therapist working in a hospice or similar setting as well as individuals who wish to explore ideas on death that are manifested in art.
Thank you Dr. Bertman
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 21 years ago
Dr. Bertman's "Facing Death" has helped me and my clients. A new favorite, I refer to it often. As a therapist, I find it to be the most valuable relevent addition to my library. Loaded with tools and comforting observations made by children and adults of many walks of life, we're shown the relevance of the grieving process to us all regardless of our ethnic background, sosioeconomic status, or age. I share these quotations and observations with my clients. As an individual, trying to make sence of my own grieving process, I find the book to be a refreshing sorce of emotional comfort. It's full of theraputic gifts. Were I currently teaching I would insist my students read this book.
Unique and Useful
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 22 years ago
As a medical educator, it can be difficult to find ways of helping students explore their emotional responses to suffering, death, and grief in ways that are safe and accessible, but challenging and useful. Dr. Bertman's book has turned out to be exactly what I was looking for. This collection of visual representations with explanatory text is a great starting place for discussions about the issues of life, death, and illness for learners at any level, from children to patients and families, to health care practitioners.
A Rich Resource
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
Facing Death is an extraordinary resource for health care professionals and teachers, religious leaders, and for anyone either contemplating death in the abstract or facing it personally or as a friend or relative of someone with a fatal illness. It is an exquisite and empathic blend of reflect, review, verbal and visual images, and practical suggestions. It contains poignant quotes from poets, novelists, and families; powerful photographs of the interactions of family members with a dying grandparent; drawings by students asked to depict their feelings about death; and photographs of great and powerful works of visual art. The author uses the arts as stimuli to help patients and students acknowledge and explore their own feelings and behaviors. This book is enormously useful to me as a mortal middle-aged human being, as a physician caring for patients, and as a teacher.
It helped me with my studdies.
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
I thought the book gave an excelent view of living with death. I got the book to help me with my studdies and I found it very usefull.
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