2011 July/August
July/August 2011 The New Grief
Are we casualties of medicine's war on death?

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PNJA11-1Long, long day’s journey into night

By Joseph Nowinski

As modern medicine's ability to slow terminal illness increases, we’re only just beginning to face, as a culture, the deep ambivalence this creates for both patient and family.

PNJA11-2The right-to-die debate

By Jordan Magaziner

As we’re living longer and longer, we may not necessarily choose to live through a painful terminal illness. Do we have the right to opt out? Should we?

PNJA11-3Death as technology’s slave

By Katy Butler

With new financial incentives, many patients are prematurely promoted to maximum treatment and patients and families are becoming victims of the war on sudden death.

PNJA11-4Each of us owes the Universe a death

By Fred Wistow

In a very dark corner of each of our minds is a voice that says, “I’m going to die. One day, I’m going to die.” How we react to this voice determines how we live our lives.

In therapy—as in fiction—there’s always possibility

By David Seaburn

The essence of psychotherapy and fiction writing is, no matter how small or fleeting, the possibility that, things might be not only different, but better.

A therapeutic game changer?

By Garry Cooper

Love and Money: Couples finances

By Sally Palaian

Dancing with the unconscious

By Rob Fisher

A match made on Earth

By Ryan Howes

Creating new paths for change

By Diane Cole

Bottom of the ninth

By Brad Sachs

The terminally ill condition

By Rich Simon