Cancer Guide - by Anne-Marie O'Dwyer (Hardcover)

About the Book

The Cancer Guide walks alongside cancer patients and their loved ones through the mental and emotional toil of this devastating diagnosis. Based on decades of working directly with patients who have cancer, O'Dwyer offers both patients and their loved ones a text from which they can find healing, guidance, and compassion.

Book Synopsis

The Cancer Guide walks alongside cancer patients and their loved ones through the mental and emotional toil of this devastating diagnosis. Based on decades of working directly with patients who have cancer, O'Dwyer offers both patients and their loved ones a text from which they can find healing, guidance, and compassion.

About the Author

Anne-Marie O'Dwyer is a clinical professor at Trinity College, Dublin, and a psychologist with almost four decades of clinical experience. She has worked at the Maudsley and Addenbrooke's Hospital and long-term at Trinity College and St James' Hospital in Dublin. O'Dwyer spent more than half of her career working directly with patients who have cancer and wrote the textbook on the psychology of cancer for Oxford University Press. In 2004, together with clinical psychologist colleague, Dr. Sonya Collier, she founded the first dedicated Psycho-Oncology service in Ireland, developing a blueprint for psycho-oncology services nationally (National Cancer Strategy, Ireland 2017).