Keywords
death
complexity
bond
psychological models
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Abstract
Anxiety towards death has been a subject of investigation since different psychological perspectives. It takes part in tanatology courses directed for health careers students and for health professional attending terminal patients. Anxiety towards death is a complex phenomenon which involves the individual coping skills but also the confrontation of the individual´s whole life experience, the integration of it and the expectations and living resolutions, the mourning into a implacable time. This checking is about anxiety towards death psychological models, such as: Psychosocial, individualists and bonding ones. Linear explanations, limits and scopes on anxiety towards death are retaken, especially when it is seen like a psychological defense, avoiding reaction, deferrings, external attribution, individualistic plenty seeking, leaving away the contradictions, ambiguities,blurrings this phenomenon has and the implications to understand and intervene it.
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