Robert Kastenbaum
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 226280 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Robert Kastenbaum |
| NOMBRES | Robert |
| APELLIDO | Kastenbaum |
| FIRMA | KASTENBAUM R |
| AFILIACIONES | Arizona State University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 42 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1959 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Death, Society, and Human Experience
The 13th edition of Death, Society, and Human Experience provides a panoramic overview of the ways that we are touched by death and dying, both as individuals and as members of society. A landmark text in the field, the authors draw on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, including perspectives offered through history, philosophy, religion, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage and unde…
Death, Society, and Human Experience
Sad to Say
Terror Management Theory (TMT) research often asks respondents to describe their personal death. This exposure enables the testing of hypotheses regarding defenses ("buffers") against the anxious awareness of death. Curiously, though, the respondents' narratives are not analyzed or reported. The present study offers a qualitative analysis of 209 college student narrative responses provided for this purpose by TMT researchers Jeff Greenberg and Na…
Should We Manage Terror—If We Could
Terror Management Theory (TMT) has been revitalizing the traditional study of death anxiety since its introduction in the 1980s. Melding the perspectives of existential philosophy and social science, TMT has stimulated a varied and often creative program of empirical studies. There are methodological limitations to be noted, however, along with a cultural bias, and the neglect of other significant encounters with death in which terror is not the …
A social history of dying
A social history of dying. By ALLAN KELLEHEAR, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2007, 310pp., £15.99, paperback (ISBN 139780521694292). From sudden death in the Stone Age to lingering decline
Do Imaginary Companions Die? An Exploratory Study
Adults in this exploratory study usually recalled that their childhood imaginary companions faded away or were dismissed as other options for social interaction became more appealing. However, eight participants reported that their IC had died. Analysis of these deaths offers a glimpse of the child's talent for transitional thought processes that navigate between the emerging constraints of logic and the continuing appeal of fantasy. It is sugges…
Is Death Better in Utopia
Life is better in any utopia that deserves its name. But what about death? This question might have seemed remote to the point of absurdity had it been raised in the early years of the death awareness movement. During the “taboo” period (Feifel, 1959) even words such as dying and death were not to be spoken. Unfortunately, people touched by mortality (the dying or the grieving) were also distanced. Here and there a smattering of protothana-tologi…
Death Writ Large
Mainstream thanatology has devoted its efforts to improving the understanding, care, and social integration of people who are confronted with life-threatening illness or bereavement. This article suggests that it might now be time to expand the scope and mission to include large-scale death and death that occurs through complex and multi-domain processes. Obstacles to developing a systematic macrothanatology are identified. The 9-11-01 terrorist …
Omega
Omega, Journal of Death and Dying, evolved from a newsletter prepared and distributed through a research project based in a geriatric hospital. This article recalls the context within which the newsletter originated, offers selections from its contents, and provides glimpses of an early phase in the development of thanatology. The transition from newsletter to journal is also described. Many questions raised and suggestions offered by contributor…
Death Writ Large
Mainstream thanatology has devoted its efforts to improving the understanding, care, and social integration of people who are confronted with life-threatening illness or bereavement. This article suggests that it might now be time to expand the scope and mission to include large-scale death and death that occurs through complex and multi-domain processes. Obstacles to developing a systematic macrothanatology are identified. The 9-11-01 terrorist …
Is Death the Spice of Life
How Do Thanatologists Live with Death? An Introduction to the Feifel-Strack Report
Looking Death in the Eye
The psychology of death
A classic, fascinating readers for nearly 30 years. New to the Third Edition are chapters on how we construct death, death in adolescence and adulthood including discussion on suicide, physician-assisted death, and Regret Theory and Denial, new approaches to the role of death anxiety, Terror Management Theory, and Edge Theory, and much more."--BOOK JACKET
Development, Reliability, and Validity of the Children's Questions about Death Scale
Most measures of parent-child communication about death are specific only to families of chronically ill children. In contrast, The Children's Questions About Death Scale (CQADS) was constructed to assess how effectively mothers respond to questions about death that their healthy children are likely to ask them. The CQADS originated from a pool of 237 questions that mothers ( N = 116) reported they had been asked by their children regarding death…
Lasting Words as a Channel for Intergenerational Communication
Lasting words can be defined as verbal messages that are remembered over many years and considered by the recipient to have had a significant influence on his/her life. The study of lasting words is proposed as a supplement to existing approaches to the older person as a communicator and, in particular, to intergenerational communication. A sample of 148 independent-living older adults was asked to share words that had made a lasting impression, …
A world without death? First and second thoughts
Most empirical studies of orientations toward death have used psychometric methods to determine the level of 'death anxiety' or a related variable. Other questions are also worth investigation, however, and other methods required. The question under investigation here is the function of death within the individual's world view. A sample of 214 university students was asked to respond to a scenario in which death is no longer inevitable. The stude…
How Far can an Intellectual Effort Diminish Pain?” William McDougall's Journal as a Model for Facing Death
The distinguished psychologist William McDougall (1871–1938) kept a journal during the last month of his life. This Journal is published here for what appears to be the first time, accompanied by a preliminary textual analysis. McDougall's major themes are increasingly intolerable pain, a self-evaluation focused primarily on his career achievements, and his attempt to “take a strong course” through the intensive application of intellectual and mo…
Cookies Baking, Coffee Brewing
Tolstoi's novel The Death of Ivan Ilych provides an instructive, though fictional case history of individual and family suffering. A contrasting actual case history is presented here in which a visiting nurse was asked to help an elderly woman care for her terminally ill husband at home. Husband and wife were both of Russian heritage. The experiences of the Ilych's and the Tchinsky's are compared with respect to the dimensions of consciousness, p…
U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups
U.S. Aging Policy Interest Groups: Institutional Profiles. Ed. by David D. Van Tassel and Jimmy Elaine Wilkinson Meyer. (Westport and Handbook of the Humanities and Aging. Ed. by Thomas R. Cole, David D. Van Tassel, and Robert Kastenbaum. (Newark Howard P. Chudacoff Howard P. Chudacoff Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 4…
Avery D. Weisman, M.D
Avery D. Weisman, M.D., a distinguished contributor to the study of the human encounter with death, discusses both the personal and professional facets of his long and productive career. Although aware of the fragility of life even as a child and exposed to death through his training in neurology, psychiatry, and pathology, Weisman found that nothing in medical school had prepared him for dealing with terminal patients. As a psychiatric consultan…
Reconstructing Death in Postmodern Society
Thanatology—defined here as “the study of life with death left in”—did not emerge as a field of concerted scholarly attention until the aftermath of World War II, which temporarily pierced society's armor of denial. This article examines the interaction between the emerging thantalogical movement and its sociohistorical context. Thanatology entered the scene during the declining years of industrialism and will take on new shape as individuals and…
Patterns and meanings of prayer in hospice caregivers
An exploratory study was conducted into the role of prayer in the personal and professional lives of caregivers to the dying. Background questionnaires were completed by 78 counselors, doctors, nurses, and volunteers who were associated with hospice programs in Arizona. Semistructured interviews were then conducted with 24 men and women who were selected randomly from the pool of questionnaires. Most of the caregivers described themselves as bein…
Prelude to a prologue
Hospice care on the international scene
The Dimensions of Future Time Perspective, an Experimental Analysis
Healthy Dying”
Until recently the health care professions gave little systematic attention to psychosocial needs of the dying person and his or her family. There seemed to be no place for death in the prevention and cure‐oriented outlook of our health care systems. This situation is now undergoing rapid change. Analysis of our society's death system indicates that “comfort care” has started to take its place along with the more dominant death system functions o…
Multiple perspectives on a geriatric ?Death Valley
Deathbed scenes as imagined by the young and experienced by the old
This study compares the deathbed scenes anticipated by students enrolled in university death education courses with the actual deathbed scenes experienced by elderly people with terminal cancer. Most students expected to live into old age and then die (a) at home, (b) with the companionship of loved ones, (c) quickly (usually in a day or less), and (d) without pain or other symptoms, while (e) remaining alert and lucid. Thoughts about an afterlif…
Patterns and meanings of prayer in hospice caregivers
An exploratory study was conducted into the role of prayer in the personal and professional lives of caregivers to the dying. Background questionnaires were completed by 78 counselors, doctors, nurses, and volunteers who were associated with hospice programs in Arizona. Semistructured interviews were then conducted with 24 men and women who were selected randomly from the pool of questionnaires. Most of the caregivers described themselves as bein…
The Direction of Time Perspective
Lasting Words as a Channel for Intergenerational Communication
Lasting words can be defined as verbal messages that are remembered over many years and considered by the recipient to have had a significant influence on his/her life. The study of lasting words is proposed as a supplement to existing approaches to the older person as a communicator and, in particular, to intergenerational communication. A sample of 148 independent-living older adults was asked to share words that had made a lasting impression, …
Vicarious grief
A phenomenon that might be termed “vicarious grief” was unexpectedly observed during a time perspective interview study conducted in the Sun Cities (Arizona) area. Some of the elderly respondents spontaneously expressed sorrow for the loss suffered by another person. These expressions of grief were comparable with those often seen in direct grief, although there may be important differences as well (such as duration of response). The vicarious gr…
Alcohol effects in old age
Fertility and the Fear of Death
The birth‐death theme has fascinated humankind for centuries. It can be discovered in many cultural practices, ranging from childnaming and memorialization rituals to the transmission of political power, and birth‐death dynamics have been probed by Hegel, Jung, Freud, and other influential thinkers. Surprisingly little has been done, however, to formulate and test specific hypotheses. This article begins with the simplistic proposition: “We fear …
Time and the Nervous System
There is now a worldwide awakening of interest in the problem of time and times, states William Gooddy in his recent discussion of Time and the Nervous System (10, p. 1139). He then proceeds to summon evidence supporting his provocative view of man as a biological clock. This writer shares Gooddy's interest in developing scientific knowledge of time relative to human affairs. Because time itself seems to be coming of age as a significant problem …
Time and the Nervous System
The Dimensions of Future Time Perspective, an Experimental Analysis
On the Investigation of Cruelty, Dignity, and Determinism
Behavior is completely determined. Behavior is not completely determined. What are the implications of holding one belief or the other? Gwynn Nettler explored this problem recently, offering provocative hypotheses and some empirical findings. His conclusions, if correct, would call for a revision of conventional notions regarding the relationships among morality, free-will-or-determinism, respect for human dignity, and the disposition to punish. …
Theories of Human Aging
The Direction of Time Perspective
New Thoughts on Old Age
A Reinforcement Survey Schedule for Use in Therapy, Training, and Research
This paper describes a Reinforcement Survey Schedule (RSS) that is intended to be useful in a variety of therapy, training, and research applications. The RSS has four sections: (a) reinforcers that can be presented in palpable, facsimile or imaginary form; (b) reinforcers that can be presented only in facsimile or imaginary form; (c) situational contexts that are reinforcing; and (d) a survey of frequently-occurring daily behaviors. The rational…
Multiple perspectives on a geriatric ?Death Valley
Theoreticians in the valley of death
Subjective Life Expectancy and Future Time Perspective as Predictors of Job Success in the “Hard-Core Unemployed”
Dying, Death, and Lethal Behavior
“The Ages of Me”
Personal age (how old a person seems to himself) is proposed (a) as a potential component of total functional age and (b) as a basis of classification in attempts to create and modify “old behavior.” Companion constructs are those of interpersonal age (how old a person seems to others) and consensual age (degree of agreement between personal and interpersonal ages). Illustrative data are reported from a sample of 75 adults (38 women, 37 men) who …
On the Future of Death
Voices of the past insist that we have no significant options with respect to death. Voices of the future protest that the past does not hold the future captive and some even proclaim the eventual technological conquest of death. This paper offers a dialogue between past and future orientations toward death, taking as focus the question: is suicidology absurd? Some major dimensions of our culture's death system are discussed. The tendency to rega…
Disaster, Death, and Human Ecology
The “ bolt-from-the-blue” hypothesis oversimplifies the complex and intimate relationship between disaster, death, and human ecology. The definition of “disaster” and our response to the event may be influenced both by leveling-sharpening dynamics and by an ethnocentricity expressed through the proposed Law of Inverse Magnitude. Human factors sometimes heighten the probability of disaster, or increase the toll. Several “meanings” of disaster are …
The Psychology of Death
Fertility and the Fear of Death
The birth‐death theme has fascinated humankind for centuries. It can be discovered in many cultural practices, ranging from childnaming and memorialization rituals to the transmission of political power, and birth‐death dynamics have been probed by Hegel, Jung, Freud, and other influential thinkers. Surprisingly little has been done, however, to formulate and test specific hypotheses. This article begins with the simplistic proposition: “We fear …
Research Planning and Action for the Elderly
The Street Corner
An expanded spectrum of research strategy is needed for the study of dying, death, and lethal behavior. Reported here is a small study that combines two of the approaches recommended: Naturalistic observation, and the exploration of possible relationships between predisposing factors and actual behavior. A street corner in Detroit, Michigan was selected as the research setting or natural laboratory. Types of street-crossing behavior were categori…
Alcohol effects in old age
Psychological Perspectives on Death
A revolution in the science of emotion has emerged in recent decades, with the potential to create a paradigm shift in decision theories. The research reveals that emotions constitute potent, pervasive, predictable, sometimes harmful and sometimes ...Read More
Sex Discrimination after Death
Death notices and obituaries published during the same calendar month (March, 1975) by daily newspapers in Boston and New York were examined for possible sex bias. A clear pattern of male preference was found. A disproportionately low number of women received obituaries, and female obituaries were also shorter. The likelihood of a recently deceased male receiving an obituary with a photograph was approximately ten times greater than that of a fem…
Healthy Dying”
Until recently the health care professions gave little systematic attention to psychosocial needs of the dying person and his or her family. There seemed to be no place for death in the prevention and cure‐oriented outlook of our health care systems. This situation is now undergoing rapid change. Analysis of our society's death system indicates that “comfort care” has started to take its place along with the more dominant death system functions o…
The psychologist and hospital policy
The psychologist and hospital policy
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