Managing cancer and living meaningfully : the paradox of advanced disease / [edited by] Gary Rodin, Sarah Hales.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Meaning of Mortality in Modern Life -- The Management of Terror -- One Thousand Lives : The Work that Influenced -- Attachment Security -- Mentalization and Mortality -- Treatment Decisions and the Therapeutic Process -- CALM and the Desire for Death -- The Pearl in the Oyster : Posttraumatic Growth -- The Context of CALM -- Measuring Process and Outcome in CALM -- The Experience of CALM Training -- From Our Clinic, Across the Globe : CALM Training, Research, and Advocacy -- Rationale, Foundations, and Goals of CALM -- The Structure and Process of CALM -- The CALM Domains -- Utilizing Measures in Clinical Practice and Supervision -- CALM Therapy Cases.

"The Walking Wounded "Waiting to die is no way to live." CALM participant Advances in medical treatment and changing demographics mean that a growing number of individuals in the world are living with advanced cancer. They are the walking wounded, facing the threat of impending mortality and the challenge of continuing with their lives. Their task differs from those who are at the end of life, whose primary goal is to face death with comfort and equanimity. The latter is no small accomplishment, but living meaningfully in the face of advanced disease is, in some respects, an even greater challenge"-- Provided by publisher.