List of issues > Series «Psychology». 2015. Vol. 13
Thanatophobia
Author(s)
V. V. Kozlov
Abstract
In his series of papers Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor V. V. Kozlov, being an acknowledged expert in transpersonal psychology in Russia and a cofounder of integrative psychology, describes notions, attitudes, myths of death phenomenon in mankind history and researches. Psychological mechanisms of life re-evaluation through death experience, lifelong spiritual quest of a person through dying experience are considered.
The third paper touches upon middle-age crisis associated with parents’ loss experience and giving the last lesson how to make his or her own life. A person shapes his or her destiny in accordance with death anxiety, which is the most stressful experience. Doing extreme activities a person is pandering with his or her death anxiety rather than death itself.
Keywords
meanings of life, death phenomenon, dying, spiritual quest, death psychology, life and immortality, middle-age crisis, thanatophobia, death anxiety, death initiation
UDC
159.99