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Word: thanatophobia (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1965-1965
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...frequent problem is whether a patient "should be told." There is much medical opposition to telling him-mostly for good and sufficient reasons. But there may be other reasons not so good. Some psychiatrists have noticed that doctors tend to have a high degree of thanatophobia (fear of death). To them death is the enemy and its victory a personal defeat from which they naturally turn away. In addition, indications are that many doctors had above-average anxiety about death in their childhood, and Dr. Herman Feifel, psychologist at the Los Angeles Veterans Clinic, speculates that this is why they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON DEATH AS A CONSTANT COMPANION | 11/12/1965 | See Source »

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