Table of Contents

1. The Existential Framework of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy
2. Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Advanced Cancer Patients
3. Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Advanced Cancer Patients
4. Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Breast Cancer Survivors
5. Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy for Cancer Survivors
6. Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Cancer Caregivers
7. Meaning-Centered Grief Therapy
8. Adapting Meaning Centered Psychotherapy for Adolescents and Young Adults with Cancer: Issues of Meaning and Identity
9. Adapting Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy in the Palliative Care Setting: Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy- Palliative Care (MCP-PC)
10. Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Chinese Cancer Patients
11. Cultural and Linguistic Adaptation of Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy for Spanish Speaking Latino Cancer Patients
12. Adaptation of Meaning Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) in the Israeli Context: The Process of Importing an Intervention and Preliminary Results
13. Replication Study of Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy in Spain: Cultural and Linguistic Challenges
14. Enhancing Meaning at Work and Preventing Burnout: The Meaning-Centered Intervention for Palliative Care Clinicians

Appendix A: Transcripts of a full course of an 8 session Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (MCGP) intervention with an exemplar group conducted as part of a randomized clinical trial

Appendix B: Transcripts of two full courses of a 7 session Individual Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (IMCP) intervention with two exemplar patients conducted as part of a randomized clinical trial.

About the Author

William Breitbart is the Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and the Jimmie C. Holland Chair in Psychiatric Oncology at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York, New York.

Reviews

If you work in oncology or in palliative care with a lot of cancer patients, this book will give you insights into their psychological suffering and how you may best be able to help them.
*IAHPC, Roger Woodruff*