Table of Contents
Acknowledgments xi
Chapter 1 Freud's Todesangst and Ghalib's Ishrat-e-Qatra: Two Perspectives on Death Salman Akhtar 1
Chapter 2 What Happens When You Die: Three-to-Four-Year-Olds Chatting about Death Leon Hoffman Eileen Johnson Michelle Foster Josephine Wright 21
Chapter 3 Children's Understanding of Death Henri Parens 37
Chapter 4 Symbolic Death, East and West: Metaphors in Three Child Case Studies Jaswant Guzder 51
Chapter 5 It Is Not Over When It's Over: Reflections on Death and Mourning Albert Kaplan 71
Chapter 6 Fear of Death: Analyst and Patient in the Same Boat Ilany Kogan 79
Chapter 7 The Dead Self Must Be Reborn Stanley J. Coen 97
Chapter 8 Living to Die and Dying to Live: Normal and Pathological Considerations of Death Anxiety Calvin A. Colarusso 107
Chapter 9 Facing Death: Intrapsychic Conflict and Intergenerational Passage Ruth Garfield 125
Chapter 10 Eastern Intersubjectivity: Relational Homes for Frailty and Death Tooraj Moradi 135
Chapter 11 Demise and Illusion M. Hossein Etezady 155
Chapter 12 Is That All There Is? A Concluding Commentary on Psychoanalysis and Death Ira Brenner 171
References 187
Index 199
About the Editor and Contributors 205