The house that's on fire: meaning-centered psychotherapy pilot group for cancer patients.
People with advanced cancer face an existential crisis in addition to their physical suffering. The principles of a new group therapy intervention (MCGP) were introduced in another paper in this issue. This paper is a report of some of the themes and issues that arose during the first pilot group.
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Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, NY, USA. mg@panix.com
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D003071:Cognition; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology*; D010865:Pilot Projects; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods*; D014925:Wit and Humor as Topic