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Papers by William Breitbart

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2018

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2006

Objectives: This article introduces a new meaning-centered psycho-educational group intervention,... more Objectives: This article introduces a new meaning-centered psycho-educational group intervention, called Enhancing meaning in palliative care nursing, designed to support nurses providing palliative care. This intervention aims at increasing job satisfaction and quality of life, as well as preventing burnout in this particular population.Theoretical frameworks: Its format and content are founded on the meaning-centered psychotherapy approach developed for terminally ill cancer patients (Breitbart, 2001; Greenstein & Breitbart, 2000). Frankl's existential therapeutic approach, called logotherapy, serves as the underlying theoretical framework to this intervention.Development: Following the presentation of the context and the development of the intervention, its content is described.Conclusion: A brief description of the ongoing randomized controlled trial testing the intervention is then provided. Finally, the way in which this intervention could contribute to nurses' quality...

Palliative and Supportive Care

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2021

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2020

Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management, 2018

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2018

This editorial is written for you, for me, for all of us. It’s for our parents and our children, ... more This editorial is written for you, for me, for all of us. It’s for our parents and our children, our spouses, partners, friends, families, and neighbors. It’s for our patients and colleagues and for the several billion human beings we will never know or encounter. It concerns the concept, act, and process of “forgiveness.” It concerns the imperative of forgiveness in human existence, an imperative in human existence made essential because it is at the root of our essence and existential being as humans living mortal, fallible, imperfect lives. It is an editorial/essay for this journal because forgiveness is what we are all called upon to grant ourselves when we face our mortality and confront the existential guilt that causes the despair we feel when we face our deaths and have no other recourse to remedy the uncompleted responsibilities, the lost possibilities, the potential never reached, the regrets, the pain, and the shame we caused others and ourselves while living a mortal, im...

Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 2021

This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the ad... more This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna, 2016

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2020

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2020

Psychosomatics, Mar 1, 2018

Over a 40 year career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Jimmie created and nurture... more Over a 40 year career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Jimmie created and nurtured the field of Psycho-oncology, established its clinical practice, advanced its clinical research agenda, and through her pioneering efforts, launched the careers of the leaders of a national and worldwide field who mourn her passing and continue to work in what has become a shared mission to emphasize "Care" in cancer care. Dr. Holland founded the International Psycho-oncology Society (IPOS) in 1984, and founded the American Psychosocial Oncology Society in 1986. Over 25 years ago, Jimmie founded and co-edited, the international journal Psycho-Oncology. Dr. Holland edited the first major textbooks of Psycho-oncology and recently edited the 3rd edition of the textbook "Psycho-oncology" in 2015. Jimmie co-wrote two well received books for the public: "The Human Side of Cancer", and "Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging"; the latter reflecting her interests in Geriatric Oncology as she approached her 90 th birthday (Holland

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Time after time, I tell myself that I'm So lucky to be loving you So lucky to be the one you run ... more Time after time, I tell myself that I'm So lucky to be loving you So lucky to be the one you run to see In the evening, when the day is through"-Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, Time After Time (1947) She was the keeper of time, and he was her son, a scientific chronicler of time. This is the story of an inevitable legacy. This is a story of time, life, love, and death; a story truer than the truth. The Timekeeper At 14, an age where the passage of time often is not a concern, a period of youth where time is not yet conceived of as a precious commodity rapidly and irreversibly streaming through one's clenched fists, she lived a carefree life, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains with her family and school friends. Her mind was filled with dreams of a limitless and endless future. She was happy, at peace, content, and enjoying the simple moments of her uncomplicated life. Then the world and existence itself changed into a nightmarish dream of fear, uncertainty, threat of death, and the realization that time could come to an abrupt end. World War II, the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Holocaust, hiding, running and fighting as a partisan in the forest, concentration camp, refugee camp, marriage, emigration to the Lower East Side of New York City-this all occurred in a blur of time, punctuated by nights of terror and the realization that time may not be on her side. At 23, she worked as a seamstress in the ABC Tie factory on West 17 th street in Manhattan. She worked alongside a dozen young women who were fellow Holocaust survivors from the same small town she came from. Only young women, none of the older women had survived the camps. She gave birth to two boys and stopped working at the tie factory to raise them. They would become doctors, to heal the world. Once the boys were both in school, she allowed herself to have her own ambitions. She went to English classes at Seward Park High School and eventually got a high school diploma. Now there was no stopping her. She took the New York City Civil Service Examination. She passed. "You know, the mathematics part was very easy," she said with great pride. Her first job: Central Office Timekeeper providing direct administrative support to the Timekeeping Services Unit within the Payroll Management Department of the City of New York. She loved her job and she loved helping support her family. The job was easy for her, "just like mathematics." At her retirement party, the Mayor of New York City dropped by to say a few words in honor of her tenure as Director of the Timekeepers Services Unit for the New York City government. "Rose, because of you, the City of New York has run like clockwork!" Forty years of keeping time, recording working hours, sick days, vacation days. "It all went so fast!" She confided in her sons that, even though her official age was 65, she had actually made herself two years older than she actually was when she arrived in the US. Her birth certificate was destroyed in the war, and she was advised to make herself older to be able to collect social security retirement benefits earlier. One of her girlfriends made herself 10 years older, and this disturbed her. "What's her hurry?" she joked. When she was diagnosed with advanced cancer she never asked the oncologist, "How much time have I got, Doc?" She knew. She didn't need to ask. She was the head timekeeper, intimate with the nature and characteristics of time. When asked what she wanted written on her tombstone, she didn't include "Timekeeper." She wanted her tombstone to read "Grandmother, Mother, Daughter, Wife, Holocaust Survivor." She whispered in her eldest son's ear "It's not how much time you live, sweetheart, it's how you live with the time you're given." The Son At five, he realized death was real and inescapable. Life was finite, and time was a nonreplenishable commodity. The Holocaust, with all its death, loss, suffering, and finality was living with his family in their apartment on the Lower East Side. It didn't have a room of its own, where you could perhaps contain it or hide it. It lived in every room, covered

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2018

Forgiveness, worthy of its name, must forgive the unforgivable. And is only humanly possible, whe... more Forgiveness, worthy of its name, must forgive the unforgivable. And is only humanly possible, when we accept the nature of its impossibility-Jacques Derrida (2001)

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2018

Shadows are fallin' and I'm runnin' out of breath Keep me in your heart for a while If I leave yo... more Shadows are fallin' and I'm runnin' out of breath Keep me in your heart for a while If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less Keep me in your heart for a while-Zevon & Calderón (2003)

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Don't take your love away from me Don't you leave my heart in misery If you go then I'll be blue ... more Don't take your love away from me Don't you leave my heart in misery If you go then I'll be blue Breaking up is hard to do-Sedaka and Greenfield (1962)

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 2000

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, inclu... more The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, including with new information specifically addressed to individuals in the European Economic Area. As described in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, this website utilizes cookies, including for the purpose of offering an optimal online experience and services tailored to your preferences. Please read the entire Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. By closing this message, browsing this website, continuing the navigation, or otherwise continuing to use the APA's websites, you confirm that you understand and accept the terms of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, including the utilization of cookies. Individual Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (IMCP), an intervention developed and rigorously tested by the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is a seven-week program that utilizes a mixture of didactics, discussion and experiential exercises that focus around particular themes related to meaning and advanced cancer. Patients are assigned readings and homework that are specific to each session's theme and which are utilized in each session. While the focus of each session is on issues of meaning and purpose in life in the face Terms of Use Privacy Policy

Revue Francophone de Psycho-Oncologie, 2005

Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, 2018

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2006

Objectives: This article introduces a new meaning-centered psycho-educational group intervention,... more Objectives: This article introduces a new meaning-centered psycho-educational group intervention, called Enhancing meaning in palliative care nursing, designed to support nurses providing palliative care. This intervention aims at increasing job satisfaction and quality of life, as well as preventing burnout in this particular population.Theoretical frameworks: Its format and content are founded on the meaning-centered psychotherapy approach developed for terminally ill cancer patients (Breitbart, 2001; Greenstein & Breitbart, 2000). Frankl's existential therapeutic approach, called logotherapy, serves as the underlying theoretical framework to this intervention.Development: Following the presentation of the context and the development of the intervention, its content is described.Conclusion: A brief description of the ongoing randomized controlled trial testing the intervention is then provided. Finally, the way in which this intervention could contribute to nurses' quality...

Palliative and Supportive Care

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2021

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2020

Essentials of Interventional Cancer Pain Management, 2018

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2018

This editorial is written for you, for me, for all of us. It’s for our parents and our children, ... more This editorial is written for you, for me, for all of us. It’s for our parents and our children, our spouses, partners, friends, families, and neighbors. It’s for our patients and colleagues and for the several billion human beings we will never know or encounter. It concerns the concept, act, and process of “forgiveness.” It concerns the imperative of forgiveness in human existence, an imperative in human existence made essential because it is at the root of our essence and existential being as humans living mortal, fallible, imperfect lives. It is an editorial/essay for this journal because forgiveness is what we are all called upon to grant ourselves when we face our mortality and confront the existential guilt that causes the despair we feel when we face our deaths and have no other recourse to remedy the uncompleted responsibilities, the lost possibilities, the potential never reached, the regrets, the pain, and the shame we caused others and ourselves while living a mortal, im...

Journal of the Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, 2021

This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the ad... more This is a PDF file of an article that has undergone enhancements after acceptance, such as the addition of a cover page and metadata, and formatting for readability, but it is not yet the definitive version of record. This version will undergo additional copyediting, typesetting and review before it is published in its final form, but we are providing this version to give early visibility of the article. Please note that, during the production process, errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.

Logotherapy and Existential Analysis: Proceedings of the Viktor Frankl Institute Vienna, 2016

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2020

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2020

Psychosomatics, Mar 1, 2018

Over a 40 year career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Jimmie created and nurture... more Over a 40 year career at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Jimmie created and nurtured the field of Psycho-oncology, established its clinical practice, advanced its clinical research agenda, and through her pioneering efforts, launched the careers of the leaders of a national and worldwide field who mourn her passing and continue to work in what has become a shared mission to emphasize "Care" in cancer care. Dr. Holland founded the International Psycho-oncology Society (IPOS) in 1984, and founded the American Psychosocial Oncology Society in 1986. Over 25 years ago, Jimmie founded and co-edited, the international journal Psycho-Oncology. Dr. Holland edited the first major textbooks of Psycho-oncology and recently edited the 3rd edition of the textbook "Psycho-oncology" in 2015. Jimmie co-wrote two well received books for the public: "The Human Side of Cancer", and "Lighter as We Go: Virtues, Character Strengths, and Aging"; the latter reflecting her interests in Geriatric Oncology as she approached her 90 th birthday (Holland

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Time after time, I tell myself that I'm So lucky to be loving you So lucky to be the one you run ... more Time after time, I tell myself that I'm So lucky to be loving you So lucky to be the one you run to see In the evening, when the day is through"-Jule Styne and Sammy Cahn, Time After Time (1947) She was the keeper of time, and he was her son, a scientific chronicler of time. This is the story of an inevitable legacy. This is a story of time, life, love, and death; a story truer than the truth. The Timekeeper At 14, an age where the passage of time often is not a concern, a period of youth where time is not yet conceived of as a precious commodity rapidly and irreversibly streaming through one's clenched fists, she lived a carefree life, at the foot of the Carpathian Mountains with her family and school friends. Her mind was filled with dreams of a limitless and endless future. She was happy, at peace, content, and enjoying the simple moments of her uncomplicated life. Then the world and existence itself changed into a nightmarish dream of fear, uncertainty, threat of death, and the realization that time could come to an abrupt end. World War II, the Nazi invasion of Poland, the Holocaust, hiding, running and fighting as a partisan in the forest, concentration camp, refugee camp, marriage, emigration to the Lower East Side of New York City-this all occurred in a blur of time, punctuated by nights of terror and the realization that time may not be on her side. At 23, she worked as a seamstress in the ABC Tie factory on West 17 th street in Manhattan. She worked alongside a dozen young women who were fellow Holocaust survivors from the same small town she came from. Only young women, none of the older women had survived the camps. She gave birth to two boys and stopped working at the tie factory to raise them. They would become doctors, to heal the world. Once the boys were both in school, she allowed herself to have her own ambitions. She went to English classes at Seward Park High School and eventually got a high school diploma. Now there was no stopping her. She took the New York City Civil Service Examination. She passed. "You know, the mathematics part was very easy," she said with great pride. Her first job: Central Office Timekeeper providing direct administrative support to the Timekeeping Services Unit within the Payroll Management Department of the City of New York. She loved her job and she loved helping support her family. The job was easy for her, "just like mathematics." At her retirement party, the Mayor of New York City dropped by to say a few words in honor of her tenure as Director of the Timekeepers Services Unit for the New York City government. "Rose, because of you, the City of New York has run like clockwork!" Forty years of keeping time, recording working hours, sick days, vacation days. "It all went so fast!" She confided in her sons that, even though her official age was 65, she had actually made herself two years older than she actually was when she arrived in the US. Her birth certificate was destroyed in the war, and she was advised to make herself older to be able to collect social security retirement benefits earlier. One of her girlfriends made herself 10 years older, and this disturbed her. "What's her hurry?" she joked. When she was diagnosed with advanced cancer she never asked the oncologist, "How much time have I got, Doc?" She knew. She didn't need to ask. She was the head timekeeper, intimate with the nature and characteristics of time. When asked what she wanted written on her tombstone, she didn't include "Timekeeper." She wanted her tombstone to read "Grandmother, Mother, Daughter, Wife, Holocaust Survivor." She whispered in her eldest son's ear "It's not how much time you live, sweetheart, it's how you live with the time you're given." The Son At five, he realized death was real and inescapable. Life was finite, and time was a nonreplenishable commodity. The Holocaust, with all its death, loss, suffering, and finality was living with his family in their apartment on the Lower East Side. It didn't have a room of its own, where you could perhaps contain it or hide it. It lived in every room, covered

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2018

Forgiveness, worthy of its name, must forgive the unforgivable. And is only humanly possible, whe... more Forgiveness, worthy of its name, must forgive the unforgivable. And is only humanly possible, when we accept the nature of its impossibility-Jacques Derrida (2001)

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2018

Shadows are fallin' and I'm runnin' out of breath Keep me in your heart for a while If I leave yo... more Shadows are fallin' and I'm runnin' out of breath Keep me in your heart for a while If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less Keep me in your heart for a while-Zevon & Calderón (2003)

Palliative and Supportive Care, 2019

Don't take your love away from me Don't you leave my heart in misery If you go then I'll be blue ... more Don't take your love away from me Don't you leave my heart in misery If you go then I'll be blue Breaking up is hard to do-Sedaka and Greenfield (1962)

American Journal of Psychotherapy, 2000

The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, inclu... more The American Psychiatric Association (APA) has updated its Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, including with new information specifically addressed to individuals in the European Economic Area. As described in the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, this website utilizes cookies, including for the purpose of offering an optimal online experience and services tailored to your preferences. Please read the entire Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. By closing this message, browsing this website, continuing the navigation, or otherwise continuing to use the APA's websites, you confirm that you understand and accept the terms of the Privacy Policy and Terms of Use, including the utilization of cookies. Individual Meaning-Centered Group Psychotherapy (IMCP), an intervention developed and rigorously tested by the Department of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, is a seven-week program that utilizes a mixture of didactics, discussion and experiential exercises that focus around particular themes related to meaning and advanced cancer. Patients are assigned readings and homework that are specific to each session's theme and which are utilized in each session. While the focus of each session is on issues of meaning and purpose in life in the face Terms of Use Privacy Policy

Revue Francophone de Psycho-Oncologie, 2005