Psychological Death: An Adaptive Response to Life-Threatening Illness
@article{Barton1972PsychologicalDA,
title={Psychological Death: An Adaptive Response to Life-Threatening Illness},
author={Dave Barton and Joseph H. Fishbein and Frank W. Stevens},
journal={The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine},
year={1972},
volume={3},
pages={227 - 236},
url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:28343893}
}In the context of a life-threatening illness, recognition and appreciation of many psychological phenomena as adaptive are necessary in order to aid both the patient and the care-giving environment to achieve a reasonable level of adaptation in the face of death.
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