title: "Living with cancer": a transpersonal course.
abstract: This course provides an educational forum for patients and their families and friends who are dealing with cancer and other potentially life-threatening illnesses. Using the basic concepts of transpersonal psychology, as formulated by Carl G. Jung, the course explores the changes experienced by patients upon diagnosis and opens the way for learning strategies to enhance life, give it new meaning and use illness as a challenge for personal growth. It differs from a support group because it has structure, objectives and content. Like a support group, however, participants engage in self-discovery without lectures. The forum is theirs, and facilitators simply function as guides.
authors: B S
authors: BS
authors: Busick
mesh_terms: D006738:Hospices; D006801:Humans; D007602:Jungian Theory; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011788:Quality of Life