61st Annual Conference

Friday, February, 27
Morning Workshops
10:30 A.M. – 1:30 P.M.

Workshop 56
Managing Cancer and Life:  Reflections on Thirty Years of Group Therapy with Cancer Patients

Chair:              

Samuel Klagsbrun, M.D., CGP, Owner/Executive Medical Director, Four

Winds Hospital, Katonah, New York

Thirty years of group therapy has resulted in cancer patients making major life decisions without allowing cancer to govern their lives.' Cancer is seen as a stimulus to avoid, wasting time. Group members challenge each other to reach for a full and meaningful life without wasting time.

sharing of work experiences-experiential-didactic-demonstration

Course References:

1. Speigel, M. (1989). The Lancet, 901.

2. Samuel K. (1970). American Journal of Psychiatry, 126, 1234-1244.

3. Kearney, M. (1996). Mortally Wounded: Stories of Soul, Pain, Death, and Healing. New York: Scriber.