Bodies and Beyond From the Dead to Death - A Psychosocial Analysis

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This paper, which was inspired by Frommer's work, marks a shift in the

field by accepting death as a basic psychological issue. With the author's

constant knowledge of his or her own mortality, the goal is to show how a

therapist's relationship with death can have a big effect on the therapy process.

To show how this works, two short clinical case stories are given. Each one

shows how the doctor and client interact differently when death is the main

topic of conversation. These cases show two different situations: one in which

the therapist uses death as an object of study well, and another in which the

therapist has a hard time dealing with other people's experiences of death, which

gets in the way of doing good therapy that focuses on death.One could say

that the therapy result of the first case was better than that of the second,

because it showed important things about how a therapist deals with death.

These important points can be summed up as follows