In Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment, Dr. Norman Straker proposes that "death anxiety" is responsible for the American society's failure to address costly futile care at the end of life; more specifically, doctors default on the appropriate prescription o[...]
Some of the United States most eminent psychiatrists and psychologists - basic scientists, social scientists, clinicians, clinical researchers, psychopharmacologists, and psychoanalysts - have contributed essays, and all of the authors are affiliated with one of the following interconnected institut[...]