Emotional Support Through Breast Cancer: The Alternative Handbook

Emotional Support Through Breast Cancer: The Alternative Handbook

by Cordelia Galgut (Author)

Synopsis

This compassionate guide presents an array of new perspectives on the emotional effects of breast cancer and includes many personal testimonies from women who have been diagnosed with this disease. Written by a breast cancer survivor and practising psychologist, it shares practical ideas to help support sufferers at all stages, be it at diagnosis, during treatment or during life after the initial treatments are over. The concise, easy-to-read format includes exercises to develop an acceptance of thoughts and feelings, whilst the individual accounts validate the multitude of emotions felt by sufferers. It is a must for all breast cancer patients and sufferers, their families and friends. Its real-life approach, using first hand accounts, is also highly recommended for all health and social care professionals wanting a fresh approach to managing the emotional impacts of breast cancer. The shock of being diagnosed with breast cancer is hard to describe in words, as anyone who has had to suffer this diagnosis knows. Until it happens to us, we cannot really know how it feels. Not only do we have to deal with the diagnosis and subsequent treatments, but also we have to deal with the fact that breast cancer profoundly affects how we feel about ourselves as women. From the Introduction

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Format: Illustrated
Pages: 72
Edition: 1
Publisher: CRC Press
Published: 16 Sep 2013

ISBN 10: 1846199360
ISBN 13: 9781846199363

Media Reviews
'The book has exercises to develop an acceptance of thoughts and feelings, whilst the individual accounts validate the multitude of emotions felt by sufferers. This book has had glowing reviews and it is easy to see why; it has the tone of a good friend and the wisdom of a health care professional. Anything to get through the trauma of breast cancer is a must, and this book impressed me on many levels: An essential.' - Frost Magazine
Author Bio
Dr Cordelia Galgut is a practising BPS Chartered psychologist, an HCPC Registered counselling psychologist and a Registered MBACP senior accredited counsellor/psychotherapist. She is widely published on various aspects of psychology, counselling and psychotherapy, but since her breast cancer diagnosis in 2004 has often written about the emotional impact of breast cancer from her dual perspective as psychologist and breast cancer sufferer. Her book, The psychological impact of breast cancer, was published by Radcliffe in 2010.