THE DESIRE FOR DEATH

2007 ◽  
pp. 94-136
Keyword(s):  
Desire For Death

Terminally Ill Patients and Desire for Death

1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. H. Brown ◽  
P. Henteleff ◽  
S. Barakat ◽  
C. J. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Terminally Ill Patients ◽  
Desire For Death

King Lear and its Origins

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Kerrigan
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
King Lear ◽  
Latin Translation ◽  
Desire For Death ◽  
History Play ◽  
Oedipus At Colonus

The agreed, major sources of King Lear are the anonymous history play King Leir and Sidney’s Arcadia. To these and other early modern ‘originals’ this chapter adds classical tragedies by Seneca, Euripides, and Sophocles—most conspicuously his Oedipus at Colonus, which was readily available in Latin translation. The ancient tragedies resonate with King Lear thanks to conventions of literary imitation that were well understood in the Jacobean period, but their presence is also symptomatic of a drive within the play to get back to the origins of nature, injustice, and causation. The influences of Plutarch and Montaigne are also highlighted. The portrayal of death (or the illusion of it) and the desire for death, in the play and its sources, are analysed. Focusing on the scenes at Dover Cliff and the division of the kingdom/s, this chapter moves to a new account of the complications of the play’s conclusion in both quarto and Folio texts.

The Desire for Death

2009 ◽  
pp. 55-59
Author(s):  
Wendy G. Lichtenthal ◽  
Megan Olden ◽  
Hayley Pessin ◽  
William Breitbart
Keyword(s):  
Desire For Death

Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Patients with Advanced Cancer

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
William S. Breitbart ◽  
Shannon R. Poppito
Keyword(s):  
Group Psychotherapy ◽  
Advanced Cancer ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Cancer Center ◽  
Advanced Cancer Patients ◽  
Expression Of Emotion ◽  
Spiritual Well Being ◽  
The Face ◽  
Desire For Death

The importance of spiritual well-being and the role of "meaning" in moderating depression, hopelessness and desire for death in terminally-ill cancer and AIDS patients has been well-supported by research, and has led many palliative clinicians to focus on the development of non-pharmacologic interventions that can help their patients address these issues. Individual Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (IMCP), an intervention developed and rigorously tested by the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is a seven-week program based around the work of Viktor Frankl, and which utilizes a mixture of didactics, discussion and experiential exercises that focus around particular themes related to meaning and advanced cancer. Patients are assigned readings and homework that are specific to each session's theme and which are utilized in each session. While the focus of each session is on issues of meaning and purpose in life in the face of advanced cancer and a limited prognosis, elements of support and expression of emotion are inevitable in the context of each group session.

De mythe van de dichter - Willem Bilderdijks beroemdheidscultus

2014 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Honings
Keyword(s):  
Desire For Death ◽  
Branded Identity ◽  
The Way

By Dutch literary scholars Willem Bilderdijk is often represented as an unhappy man with a miserable life, full of poverty, illness and underestimation. He is, indeed, famous for his endless complaining and his burning desire for death. There were good reasons for him to be unhappy: he was often ill, lived in exile, suffered the loss of children and had the constant feeling he couldn’t find his way in life. In spite of all this, the case of Bilderdijk’s poethood is more complicated. Because of the dominant biographical focus on Bilderdijk’s life and work, one aspect of his authorship has until now largely been neglected: the way in which he created a ‘branded identity’ and presented himself as a celebrity. This article focuses on the manners in which Bilderdijk created an image of himself as a poet of mythical proportions. In other words: it will examine the different ways in which Bilderdijk established his celebrity cult.

scholarly journals Effect of dignity therapy on end-of-life psychological distress in terminally ill Portuguese patients: A randomized controlled trial

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 628-637 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Julião ◽  
Fátima Oliveira ◽  
Baltazar Nunes ◽  
António Vaz Carneiro ◽  
António Barbosa
Keyword(s):  
Palliative Care ◽  
Randomized Controlled Trial ◽  
Psychological Distress ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Controlled Trial ◽  
Terminally Ill ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Randomized Controlled ◽  
Dignity Therapy ◽  
Desire For Death

ABSTRACTObjective:Dignity therapy (DT) is a brief form of psychotherapy developed for patients living with a life-limiting illness that has demonstrated efficacy in treating several dimensions of end-of-life psychological distress. Our aim was to determine the influence of DT on demoralization syndrome (DS), the desire for death (DfD), and a sense of dignity (SoD) in terminally ill inpatients experiencing a high level of distress in a palliative care unit.Method:A nonblinded phase II randomized controlled trial was conducted with 80 patients who were randomly assigned to one of two groups: the intervention group (DT + standard palliative care [SPC]) or the control group (SPC alone). The main outcomes were DS, DfD, and SoD, as measured according to DS criteria, the Desire for Death Rating Scale, and the Patient Dignity Inventory (PDI), respectively. All scales were assessed at baseline (day 1) and at day 4 of follow-up. This study is registered with http://www.controlled-trials.com/ISRCTN34354086.Results:Of the 80 participants, 41 were randomized to DT and 39 to SPC. Baseline characteristics were similar between the two groups. DT was associated with a significant decrease in DS compared with SPC (DT DS prevalence = 12.1%; SPC DS prevalence = 60.0%; p < 0.001). Similarly, DT was associated with a significant decrease in DfD prevalence (DT DfD prevalence = 0%; SPC DfD prevalence = 14.3%; p = 0.054). Compared with participants allocated to the control group, those who received DT showed a statistically significant reduction in 19 of 25 PDI items.Significance of results:Dignity therapy had a beneficial effect on the psychological distress encountered by patients near the end of life. Our research suggests that DT is an important psychotherapeutic approach that should be included in clinical care programs, and it could help more patients to cope with their end-of-life experiences.

The Euthanasia Debate: Attitudes, Practices and Psychiatric Considerations

1995 ◽  
Vol 40 (10) ◽  
pp. 593-602 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harvey Max Chochinov ◽  
Keith G Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health Professionals ◽  
Assisted Suicide ◽  
Psychiatric Morbidity ◽  
Physician Attitudes ◽  
Current Status ◽  
Physician Assisted Suicide ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Hastened Death ◽  
Desire For Death

Objective To review the current status of the euthanasia debate by examining public and physician attitudes towards euthanasia, the practice of euthanasia in the Netherlands, recent developments in Canada and other countries, psychosocial considerations related to the desire for death in terminally inpatients, and the roles that psychiatrists may be asked to play in the event of legislative reform involving decriminalization. Methods A literature review was conducted focusing on recent surveys regarding physician and patient attitudes towards euthanasia, the role of psychiatrists and empirical data pertaining to the mental state of patients who request physician-hastened death. Results Psychiatric morbidity among patients requesting physician-hastened death is considerable. Conclusion As a special case of suicide, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide are of particular relevance to mental health professionals.

scholarly journals “Thou shalt bid thy fair hands rove”: L. E. L.’s Wooing of Sex, Pain, Death and the Editor

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cynthia Lawford
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Relationship ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Letitia Landon ◽  
Desire For Death ◽  
Illegitimate Children

Abstract So what if Letitia Landon had three illegitimate children by William Jerdan? What difference does the discovery of the affair make for our reading of L. E. L.’s poetry? This essay begins to explore these questions with regard to her love poems, many of which culminate in a desire for death even greater than that voiced for the absent beloved. We have been disinclined to believe in the authenticity of the poems’ fatal passions and naturally require more evidence before we can assume that any of their intensity is related to Landon’s feelings for the bibulous Literary Gazette editor. Through examining a number of Landon’s early, sexually daring poems and her relationship with Jerdan at the time of their writing, this essay provides some of that evidence and discusses the part these works likely played in the evolution of this literary and sexual relationship. According to Landon’s theory, genius had to devote its grand soul to an inferior being to experience the torment essential for producing literary works of the highest order. Landon viewed her affair with the editor as a means to a greater end: the poems themselves, including, not incidentally, their publication and promotion.

Daily hassles, physical illness, and sleep problems in older adults with wishes to die

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 243-252 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sylvie Lapierre ◽  
Richard Boyer ◽  
Sophie Desjardins ◽  
Micheline Dubé ◽  
Dominique Lorrain ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Older Adults ◽  
Associated Factors ◽  
Sleep Problems ◽  
Physical Illness ◽  
Chronic Illnesses ◽  
Daily Hassles ◽  
Unique Contribution ◽  
Factors Associated ◽  
Wish To Die ◽  
Desire For Death

ABSTRACTBackground: Factors associated with the wish to die should be investigated in order to gain more opportunities for preventive interventions targeting older adults at risk for suicide. The goal of the research was to study the prevalence and associated factors of wishes to die in older adults living in the community using the data from a survey on the prevalence of mental disorders in this population.Methods: With a representative sample of community living older adults aged 65 years and over (N = 2777), we compared individuals with the wish to die (n = 163) to those without the wish to die on the basis of the presence and severity of daily hassles, physical illness, and sleep quality.Results: Logistic regression revealed that when depression and sociodemographic variables were held constant, self-rated physical health, number of chronic illnesses, number and intensity of daily hassles, as well as sleep problems were significantly associated with the wish to die in older adults. Painful illnesses and daytime dysfunction due to sleep problems were also associated factors with the wish to die.Conclusion: Since desire for death is the first step into the suicidal process, health professionals should seriously consider the important and unique contribution of these variables in order to have more opportunities for detection and intervention.

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