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Peer reviewedGetzel, George S. – Social Work, 1991
Describes four modes of positive survival with Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) and analyzes them as they appear in support groups for people with AIDS. Sees beneficent, artistic-spiritual, heroic, and rational-instrumental survival modes as compromise solutions to fears of life and death described by Rank. Calls analysis nonpejorative…
Descriptors: Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Chronic Illness, Coping, Death
