Book sheds light on how to help child dying from cancer, by child psychiatrist dad

Abstract

Written by a child psychoanalyst, A Short Good Life documents the author's life with his daughter, Liza, during the two years after she contracted leukemia until her death at the age of six. The book is not sentimental, but heart‐rending. Twenty‐five years have passed since Liza died, but the pain remains; still, so does the learning, and the many lessons for parents and, especially, the health care system in the way it handles both parents and patients during this process.