Mortally Wounded

by Kearney, Michael

• ISBN13: 9781882670796
• ISBN10: 1882670795
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-12-01
• Publisher: Spring Journal

Summary

What makes for a good death? In Mortally Wounded, a best-seller in Ireland where it was first published, Dr. Michael Kearney reflects upon his experiences working with the dying and shows us that is possible to learn to die well, overcoming our fears and soul pain and accepting death as an integral part of life.

Author Biography

Michael Kearney, M.D., has over 25 years of working as a physician in end-of-life care. He is currently Medical Director of the Palliative Care Service at Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital and Associate Medical Director at Visiting Nurse and Hospice Care. He also acts as medical director to the Anam Cara Project for Compassionate Companionship in Life and Death in Bend, Oregon. Other publications by Dr. Kearney include A Place of Healing: Working with Suffering in Living and Dying and Spiritual Care of the Dying Patient, (co-authored with Balfour Mount, M.D.), in Handbook of Psychiatry in Palliative Medicine (eds. Harvey Max Chochinov and William Breitbart).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Stories and Questions
Jackie	p. 7
Emma's and Bill's Stories	p. 11
Sean	p. 15
Signs and Symptoms
Chiron: A Mythological Model	p. 27
The Surface and the Deep: A Psychological Model	p. 37
Soul	p. 41
Soul Pain	p. 45
Modern Myths
From Fear to Sadness: Dara's Story	p. 53
The Pain of No Meaning: Frank's Story	p. 63
"Well, I'm not a Medieval Mystic": Bairbre's Story	p. 75
"It's Not All Right": Anne's Story	p. 89
Spontaneous Combustion: James's Story	p. 103
Depth Work
Beginning a Journey in Depth	p. 113
Wounded Healers	p. 117
Build Your Ship of Death!	p. 119
The Chiron Myth	p. 123
An Analysis of the Chiron Myth: Wounding, Struggle, Choice, Descent, and Return	p. 125
Afterword	p. 147
Bibliography	p. 149
Index	p. 151
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