Staring at the sun: Overcoming the terror of death.
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- Authors
- Yalom, I. D.
- Affiliations
- Stanford Medicine (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yalom, Irvin D.
- Venue
- The Humanistic Psychologist
- Published
- 2008-07
- Volume
- 36
- Issue
- 3-4
- Pages
- 283-297
- ISSN
- 0887-3267 (ISSN-L)
- 1547-3333
- OpenAlex
- W2115906476
- Cited by
- 423
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 12.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- diamond
- reflective-practice.org
- Licence
- cc-by
- Locations
- The Humanistic Psychologist (publishedVersion)
- Reflective practice (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Death Anxiety and Social Exclusion
- Social Sciences › Anthropology › Death, Funerary Practices, and Mourning
- Social Sciences › Health › Religion, Spirituality, and Psychology
- Keywords
- fear of death, mortality, self-awareness, human consciousness, coming to terms with death, memoirs, death and dying, Jerome Frank, Rollo May, psychotherapy
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