Avery D Weisman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4215216 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avery D Weisman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avery D |
| FAMILY NAME | Weisman |
| SIGNATURE | WEISMAN A D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1956 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
A Designated Thanatologist
Counselor of Quality
Coping with cancer from the patient's or counselor's viewpoint means that strengths and resources depend on assessing predominant problems and acting appropriately to alleviate them. It does not always mean resolution of problems, but it does require understanding where the pressure points are that lead to more distress. Thus, counselors anticipate as well as understand actual distress; visualize various outcomes of different interventions, medic…
Bereavement and Companion Animals
Loss of a companion animal accompanied by intense grief and mourning is seldom recognized as an important and authentic occasion for bereavement. While pet ownership is praised and its virtues celebrated, corresponding grief is often trivialized and not recognized as truly significant. The author established a bereavement counseling program at a humane society and reports findings that confirm parallels between human and animal bonding and bereav…
Psychosocial Analysis of Cancer Deaths
In addition to biological activity and cancer treatment, psychosocial considerations may influence both the quality of survival and its length. The investigators used information from psychological autopsies of cancer deaths, and correlated observed survival (measured in months beyond expected survival) with psychosocial findings. Patients who lived significantly longer tended to maintain cooperative and mutually responsive relationships, especia…
The Right to Die—Decision and Decision Makers
On the value of denying death
Prevention of Suicide (Public Health Papers No. 35)
Death and Dying: Attitudes of Patient and Doctor (Symposium No. 11)
Illness or Allness
Ciba Foundation Symposium on the Nature of Sleep
Predilection to Death: Death and Dying as a Psychiatric Problem
A series of five unusual surgical patients is reported in which “predilection” to death was a prominent part of the clinical picture. The common characteristic of these predilection patients is that each anticipated his death at the time of admission. With the exception of a mentally ill woman, they were neither anxious nor significantly depressed. All expressed the conviction that death would occur within a short time, except for a young girl wh…
Psychiatric Management of Operative Syndromes: II. Psychodynamic Factors in Formulation and Management
Surgical patients may develop a variety of psychological disorders during the preoperative, postoperative, and convalescent periods. These psychiatric complications of surgery are called operative syndromes. While one syndrome may differ empirically from another, they have a common psychodynamic structure. It is possible to manage these patients effectively by means of the therapeutic consultation. This consists of a four-fold method of intervent…
Psychiatric Management of Operative Syndromes: I. The Therapeutic Consultation and the Effect of Noninterpretive Intervention
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Associate Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
The Story of Peptic Ulcer
On the Significance of Psychic Factors in the Development of Peptic Ulcer
A Study of the Psychodynamics of Duodenal Ulcer Exacerbations: With Special Reference to Treatment and the Problem of "Specificity"
Six male patients with exacerbations of chronic duodenal ulcer have been studied in order to elicit the concomitant psychological factors. The major symptom was essentially similar in all patients: epigastric pain, usually nocturnal, relieved by ingestion of food, but reappearing within several hours. The investigative method included psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The formulation of the emotional state at the time of relapse in…
A Study of the Psychodynamics of Duodenal Ulcer Exacerbations: With Special Reference to Treatment and the Problem of "Specificity"
Six male patients with exacerbations of chronic duodenal ulcer have been studied in order to elicit the concomitant psychological factors. The major symptom was essentially similar in all patients: epigastric pain, usually nocturnal, relieved by ingestion of food, but reappearing within several hours. The investigative method included psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The formulation of the emotional state at the time of relapse in…
The Story of Peptic Ulcer
On the Significance of Psychic Factors in the Development of Peptic Ulcer
Psychiatric Management of Operative Syndromes: II. Psychodynamic Factors in Formulation and Management
Surgical patients may develop a variety of psychological disorders during the preoperative, postoperative, and convalescent periods. These psychiatric complications of surgery are called operative syndromes. While one syndrome may differ empirically from another, they have a common psychodynamic structure. It is possible to manage these patients effectively by means of the therapeutic consultation. This consists of a four-fold method of intervent…
Psychiatric Management of Operative Syndromes: I. The Therapeutic Consultation and the Effect of Noninterpretive Intervention
Department of Psychiatry, Massachusetts General Hospital; Instructor in Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Neurology and Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Assistant Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School; Associate Psychiatrist, Massachusetts General Hospital
Predilection to Death: Death and Dying as a Psychiatric Problem
A series of five unusual surgical patients is reported in which “predilection” to death was a prominent part of the clinical picture. The common characteristic of these predilection patients is that each anticipated his death at the time of admission. With the exception of a mentally ill woman, they were neither anxious nor significantly depressed. All expressed the conviction that death would occur within a short time, except for a young girl wh…
Ciba Foundation Symposium on the Nature of Sleep
Illness or Allness
Death and Dying: Attitudes of Patient and Doctor (Symposium No. 11)
Prevention of Suicide (Public Health Papers No. 35)
On the value of denying death
The Right to Die—Decision and Decision Makers
Psychosocial Analysis of Cancer Deaths
In addition to biological activity and cancer treatment, psychosocial considerations may influence both the quality of survival and its length. The investigators used information from psychological autopsies of cancer deaths, and correlated observed survival (measured in months beyond expected survival) with psychosocial findings. Patients who lived significantly longer tended to maintain cooperative and mutually responsive relationships, especia…
Bereavement and Companion Animals
Loss of a companion animal accompanied by intense grief and mourning is seldom recognized as an important and authentic occasion for bereavement. While pet ownership is praised and its virtues celebrated, corresponding grief is often trivialized and not recognized as truly significant. The author established a bereavement counseling program at a humane society and reports findings that confirm parallels between human and animal bonding and bereav…
Counselor of Quality
Coping with cancer from the patient's or counselor's viewpoint means that strengths and resources depend on assessing predominant problems and acting appropriately to alleviate them. It does not always mean resolution of problems, but it does require understanding where the pressure points are that lead to more distress. Thus, counselors anticipate as well as understand actual distress; visualize various outcomes of different interventions, medic…
A Designated Thanatologist
Psychology (16 works) · Medicine (10 works) · Psychiatry (6 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Internal Medicine (3 works) · Social Psychology (3 works)