Meaning-centered psychotherapy in the cancer setting : finding meaning and hope in the face of suffering

Abstract

'Meaning-Centered-Psychotherapy in the Cancer Setting' provides a theoretical context for Meaning-Centered Psychotherapy (MCP), a non-pharmalogic intervention which has been shown to enhance meaning and spiritual well-being, increase hope, improve quality of life, and significantly decrease depression, anxiety, desire for hastened death, and symptom burden distress in the cancer setting.