title: The psychiatry of writing a will.
abstract: The last will and testament of patients seen by psychiatrists is rarely a topic of exploration. On examination it is found to be intertwined with the testator's attitudes toward death. When these attitudes are irrational and conflictual, the making of a will is also a conflictual activity, revealing many bizarre strivings, especially for immortality.
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001293:Attitude to Death; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D006801:Humans; D011613:Psychotherapy; D014918:Wills