Section 1: Theoretical Issues
1 Impermanence and the human dilemma: Observations across the ages
Rachel E. Menzies
2 Fear of death: Nature, development and moderating factors
Ross G. Menzies and Rachel E. Menzies
3 Beyond the dread of death: Existentialism's embrace of the meaninglessness of life
Gerard Kuperus
4 Love, death, and the quest for meaning
Mario Mikulincer
5 The death instinct and psychodynamic accounts of the wound of mortality
Ross G. Menzies and Rachel E. Menzies
6 An intelligent design theory of the origins, evolution and function of religion: Toward an integration of existential and evolutionary perspectives
Tom Pyszczynski and Sharlynn Thompson
7 Death anxiety and psychopathology
Lisa Iverach
Section 2: Treatment approaches
8 Death in existential psychotherapies: A critical review
Joel Vos
9 Cognitive and behavioural procedures for the treatment of death anxiety
Rachel E. Menzies
10 Death acceptance and the meaning-centred approach to end-of-life care
Paul T. P. Wong, David F. Carreno, and Beatriz Gongora Oliver
11 Continuing bonds between the living and the dead in contemporary western societies: Implications for our understandings of death and the experience of death anxiety pp. x-x
Edith Steffen and Elaine Kasket
12 Treating low self-esteem: Cognitive behavioural therapies and terror management theory
Peter J. Helm, Jennifer E. Duchschere and Jeff Greenberg
13 Therapeutic interventions for the dread of death: Personal and clinical reflections
Thomas Heidenreich und Alexander Noyon

This unique book explores the dread of death and its management from a wide range of perspectives with researchers and writers from a variety of cultures, academic traditions and disciplines across the globe. The fields covered are broad - including palliative care and grief, psychodynamic theory, social, developmental and clinical psychology, sociology and anthropology, counselling practice as well as history, art, and philosophy.