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Survival modes for people with AIDS in groups
1Hunter College, School of Social Work, New York, NY 10021.
Social Work
|January 1, 1991
Abstract:
Four modes of positive survival with AIDS are described and analyzed as they appear in support groups for people with AIDS. The beneficent, artistic-spiritual, heroic, and rational-instrumental survival modes are seen as compromise solutions to the twin fears of life and death described by Rank. This analysis is a nonpejorative means of validating group members' efforts to deal with the wounds and challenges of disease.