Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Cancer Patients

Albert Bandura

Introduction to the Transaction Edition, Acknowledgments, Contributors, Foreword by Hyman Spotnitz, Preface by Jane G. Goldberg, Introduction, Part I: Theoretical Considerations, 1. Experimental Validation of Psychosomatic Aspects of Cancer, 2. Cancer in Myth and Dream, 3. Stress, 4. A Psychosocial Model in the Treatment of Cancer Patients, Part II: Treating Cancer as a Psychosomatic Disease, 5. The Psychopathology of Self-Mutilation in the Life of the Contemporary Patient, 6. Wilhelm Reich’s Cancer Biopathy, 7. Exploring the Relationship Between Personality and Cancer, Part III: The Role of the Practitioner, 8. Cancer and Psychotherapy, 9. Psychoanalytic Therapy with Cancer Patients, 10. Medicine as Food, Part IV: Group Treatment, 11. Aggression and Cancer in Group Treatment, 12. Cancer as a Treatment Destructive Resistance in Group Therapy, 13. In the Leper Colony, Part V: The Family, 14. Psychological Adjustment of Children with Cancer, 15. Cancer and the Family Emotional System, 16. Self-Esteem, Sexuality, and Cancer Management, 17. The Mysterious Case of Ichabod Crane, Index