Meyer J E
Psychother Psychosom Med Psychol. 1989 Feb;39(2):64-7.
This article is a presentation of the manifold fears that beset humans in respect of dying and death-based on case reports-as are frequently encountered in patients suffering from anxiety neuroses, phobias and obsessional neuroses, hypochondria and depersonalisation syndromes. The links between these individual fears with the personality structure of the affected person are discussed. This also raises the question to what extent these fears become manifest because of a slackening of the defence mechanisms. It appears to be a characteristic sign of the times that collective worries about the finite nature of human life focus entirely on dying, whereas the problems and questions regarding death itself are not subject to any discussion.
本文基于病例报告，阐述了困扰人类的诸多关于濒死和死亡的恐惧，这些恐惧常见于患有焦虑症、恐惧症、强迫症、疑病症和人格解体综合征的患者中。文中讨论了这些个体恐惧与患者人格结构之间的联系。这也引发了一个问题，即这些恐惧在多大程度上是由于防御机制的松弛而显现出来的。似乎这是一个时代特征，即对人类生命有限性的集体担忧完全集中在濒死上，而关于死亡本身的问题却无人讨论。
