AEGiS-BKREV: Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV

(BKREV) Hope and Mortality: Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV

Analytic Press, 101 West St., Hillsdale, NJ 07642. 258p., bibliog., index. ISBN 0-88163-223-6. $45.00.
edited by Mark J. Blechner. 1997.

Psychotherapy is an extremely important therapy for HIV positive individuals and those with full blown AIDS. The disease, itself, has forced many psychological changes. "It forced us to rethink our relation to sickness and health, to mortality, sexuality, drug use, and what we consider valuable in life." The 4 well-written and detailed chapters cover: "Psychodynamic Approaches to AIDS and HIV," "Modifying Psychotherapeutic Methods When Treating the HIV-Positive Patient," "Treatment of Children and Parents in Families with AIDS," and "Gidget Goes to Sing-Sing: An Interpersonal Therapeutic Approach to HIV-Positive Substance Abusers." The last half of the book consists of 8 case studies. "All of the therapies described in this book are full of life, revealing the give-and-take of two individual presences." It provides an insight on how the therapists speaks, works, and thinks. Psychoanalytic and psychodynamic treatments are nothing if they are not alive, this book illustrates this very well. It is a recommended book for all academic and medical libraries. "It will instruct and challenge all mental health professionals, and provide hope and enlightenment to anyone dealing with a life-threatening condition."

Keywords: Psychology; HIV Infections; Psychotherapy Methods; Attitude to Death

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