The life tape project: Increasing family social support and symbolic immortality with a brief existential intervention for cancer patients and their families

Omega: Journal of Death and Dying

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 321-339

  Rosenbaum, Ernest ^a   Garlan, Robert W ^b   Hirschberger, Naama ^a   Siegel, Alison L ^a   Butler, Lisa D ^c   Spiegel, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Ravenslea   (United States)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 35448986532     PISSN: 00302228     EISSN: 15413764     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2190/F143-5363-3442-5163     Document Type: Article

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