Sentences with phrase «of death anxiety»

The key for us in the context of death anxiety is how we get out of our minds and into our life.

People who experienced separations from significant others, especially early in life, may develop high levels of death anxiety as death is experienced as the ultimate separation from a close person.

Preterm young adults exhibited higher levels of emotional reactivity and fusion with others, and higher levels of death anxiety than their counterparts.

The sample included 57 emerging adults who were born preterm, and a paired control group that filled out questionnaires: The Perceptions of Adult Attachment Questionnaire, Personal Assessment of Intimacy in Relationships, the death anxiety test, and projective assessment of death anxiety.

Death education programmes could help to reduce levels of death anxiety by preparing nursing students and nurses to confront their beliefs about death, and staff involved in critical incidents should be assessed against a trauma risk - management tool.

To combat this, the author says, occupational risk - assessment tools for staff and nursing students should be developed and more research carried out to explore the incidence of death anxiety among emergency workers.

Writing in Emergency Nurse, Mike Brady states that nurses working in emergency settings should be made aware of the risks of death anxiety, or thanatophobia, and given access to interventions to prevent it from affecting their physical and mental health.

«While many emergency nurses and paramedics may be unaware of death anxiety, they are exposed to it in their everyday practice.

Not exact matches

Social psychologists built terror - management theory on Becker's insights: «The basic motivation for human behavior is our biological need to control our basic anxiety, to deny the terror of death.»

The death of Pope Shenouda III sparked anxiety in the embattled minority group in Egypt's Muslim majority.

My desire comes less in night darkness or times of anxiety; then death seems fitting.

One wonders if all this talk of the old «performing» a good death is a way of placing a burden on the old, adding another anxiety on those already anxious about many things.

As he heard the speaker describe the anxiety and resistance of basically affluent people facing death after a comfortable life, he could think only of the many people he knew, like his parents and relatives, who suffer so much so unjustly.

Modern persons will never find rest for their restless hearts without Christ, for modern culture is nothing but the wasteland from which the gods have departed, and so this restlessness has become its own deity; and, deprived of the shelter of the sacred and the consoling myths of sacrifice, the modern person must wander or drift, vainly attempting one or another accommodation with death, never escaping anxiety or ennui, and driven as a result to a ceaseless labor of distraction, or acquisition, or willful idiocy.

To lower one's anxiety level, to gain a sense that something is happening, to take revenge for the senseless death of a buddy, one is tempted to kill — anyone or everyone in sight.

Bultmann seized what he could use of these ideas: the anxiety produced by the existential question; the dread produced by the answer of death to all; the attempted flight into worldly business, social status and ephemera; the rare courage to begin an existence which would be authentic because open - eyed.

The earliest and (according to Gustav Aulen) Luther's atonement theories were not addressed to the anxiety of guilt, but to that of (in Tillich's terms) «fate and death.»

A very few report that they just touch the lips to the wine and that the smell and taste give rise to some anxiety (one person calls this practice «the kiss of death»).

Without God, without the one whose death on the cross challenges all our good feelings, who stands beyond and over against our human anxieties, all we have left is sentiment, a saccharine residue of theism in demise.

This is the central theme of The Concept of Anxiety, Purity of Heart, the essay on «The Crowd is Untruth,» The Sickness Unto Death, and Practice in Christianity.

Underneath all the problems of the middle years is the anxiety related to aging — the anxiety of nonbeing, of dying and death.

In this task I will draw on The Concept of Anxiety [Dread], Philosophical Fragments, and The Sickness Unto Death.

One of the essential functions of a good marriage is for the partners to provide encouragement and support to each other as they go through anxiety - producing periods of crisis — pregnancy, illness, children growing up and leaving home, deaths of parents, husband's retirement.

In The Concept of Anxiety and The Sickness Unto Death, his two main psychological works, he understands human beings as creatures of God who unavoidably exist in relation to their Creator.

But this coolness is still more horrible: that, in the anxiety of death, a man should not cry out for help, «I am going under, save me»; but that he should quietly choose to be a witness to his own destruction!

Keeping in mind the principle of linkage, we see how anxiety about death may be bound up with unresolved questions about the meaning of life.

At a theoretical level, given technological drives and commercial interests, the juggernaut of «the culture of death» seems unstoppable, but there is a widespread and growing measure of intelligent anxiety.

«Nuclearism,» he concludes in The Broken Connection, is the passionate embrace of nuclear weapons as a solution to death anxiety and a way of restoring a lost sense of immortality» and achieving «mastery of death and evil.»

Paul Tillich wrote of the «courage to be» in face of three great onslaughts to our psyche: the anxiety of death, the anxiety of guilt, the anxiety of meaninglessness.

Death, how welcome is your sentence to a destitute man whose strength is failing, worn down by age and endless anxiety, resentful and at the end of his patience!

Life apart from faith is a life of anxiety and fear, of bondage to the past, to corruption, sin, and death.

As an American psychiatrist has recently pointed out, Freud was haunted by anxiety about death and the meaninglessness of life.

now, it certainly can not be denied that mutual discussion about such existential realities is possible between those who hold different existential attitudes, and that for practical purposes here can be provisional agreement on the use of such words as death, anxiety, or love as a basis for further discussion.

Death anxiety persists in dreams and in f ear of crowds.

It is a life without the nature of death and of sin, hence without sorrow, pain, anxiety, care, misery.

His anxieties are no longer born of eternal aspiration, though they are certainly rooted in a consciousness of death.

If it is true that philosophical anxiety — anxiety about death, meaninglessness, and finitude — is a factor in the etiology of alcoholism, then a religious solution makes a unique contribution toward eliminating the causes of alcoholism.

This gives him the «courage to renounce anxiety... which only faith is capable of — not that it annihilates anxiety, but remaining ever young, it is continually developing itself out of the death throes of anxiety» (p. 104).

This new serenity would indeed see him through the first life - threatening onset of cancer, which turned out to be a crisis that sent those of us around him into a watchful state of anxiety but that would by his account leave him with a newfound feeling of peace and acceptance in the presence of death.

The Marxist philosopher Ernst Bloch thinks that the relative neglect of the problem of death in modern secular thought is due to the unconscious influence of inherited Christian views: «Thus in its ability to suppress the anxiety of all earlier times, apparently this quite shallow courage [of modern secular people] feasts on a borrowed credit card.

World tensions and anxieties are certainly harmful to mental health, and the physical ravages of war spread sickness, injury, and death everywhere.

And unless our experience of having lived and suffered and enjoyed is somehow salvaged in its immediacy we will probably remain with our anxiety about death.

Then the presence of the gay person who (usually) does not have children may reawaken the fear of death, even though its conscious experience may be a nameless anxiety.

It leaves me with some existential anxiety and doesn't provide answers about life after death, but it provides real certainty where it offers it and safeguards against the insanity of the mystical and the dangers of basing conclusions on things that can never be proven or tested.

This is revealed in the «mature manhood» of Jesus Christ (his life, death, and resurrection), since he overcame the confusion, anxiety, and division within man's nature.

The threats which arouse this anxiety are of three kinds: of fate and death, emptiness and loss of meaning, guilt and condemnation.

When people are dealing with deep depression, the anxieties of life, ruined relationships, lost jobs, the death of a child or spouse, or ongoing health problems, the last thing they need is the idea that God hates them.

Families who have experienced prematurity, low birth weight, early medical problems and / or hospitalization of mother or baby, difficult pregnancy or births or other early important losses such as a death in the family, anxiety / depression or a high stress pregnancy

A death in the family, particularly of a grandparent or someone else close to the child, can create confusion and grief, as well as anxiety and stress.

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