Death anxiety, in some cases, is a morbid dread of death. Not merely dread of the physical and emotional suffering that can accompany dying, but a profound dread of the presumed nothingness that comes ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Thinking about death doesn’t make you morbid—it makes you aware. But when that awareness tips into obsession, anxiety, or dread, ...

Listening for the unspoken is one of the skills a therapist learns when working with others. Many clues lie in what is not being said. Psychiatrist Irvin Yalom, known for his pioneering work in ...

Emergency nurses are highly susceptible to death anxiety and employers must recognise this and put support in place to improve the health of their staff and patient care. Writing in Emergency Nurse, ...

Understanding mortality represents one of humanity’s most fundamental psychological challenges, yet developing healthy acceptance of death’s inevitability can profoundly enhance how we experience life ...

Our culture encourages denial about death. While we don’t talk about it, death anxiety is a pervasive theme of being human, shaping much of what we think and do. Coming to terms with our mortality can ...

Texas A&M University researchers have found that a brief virtual reality (VR) simulation of a near-death experience can sharply reduce people’s anxiety about death. In a small pilot study of about 60 ...

The man who decoded the mysteries of the human mind harbored a secret that would have sent most of his patients running to his couch. In his 40's, Freud "had numerous psychosomatic disorders as well ...