| In a sense comparable to the physical autopsyor postmortem examination me psychologicalautopsy is the fulcrum for a scientific study ofthe psychology of death dying ant re-threatening behavior a field called thanatol-ogy. The present book is the first ever tosystematically expouna the piece-by-piece re-construction and synthesis of events sur-rounding the terminalphase of life. The author shows that to reanze death wemust penetrate our habitua fears platitudes,formulas, and pretenses. In reaching thesegoals, we should understand that there s adifference between strrvival and significantsurvival, between dying ana appropriatedeath, aria between s ckness and responsibil-ity. These questionsare posed and then care-fully dissected and defined in terms of plaus-ible answers. As Dr. Edwin S. Shneidman savs n his fas-cinating foreword to the book: "The nsv-chological autopsy is no longer an ntant. Itcomes of age in Dr. Weisman s book, The spe-cial features of it lie in its multidisciplinaryspirit, the involvement of several strides OTsocial and behaviora scientists in me retro-spective creation from as many sources aspossible, of the tangible teatures of a now-dead fellow human--to bring him to life as itwere and then try to divine his motivationsintentions, attitudes, and amb valences in rela-tion to one specific temporal span of behaviorwhich in itself had extreme consequences his dying. Dr. Weisman aptly terms this the "lOCal event... . |
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