Please listen here to me being interviewed by my psychologist colleague, Dr Frances Goodhart, about why I wrote my book on cancer’s long term effects.
So many of us have them and increasing numbers, but there is still a lot of resistance to recognising this.
“I have just completed listening to the podcast - it was great on all levels - how do you manage to be so fluent with such difficult and searching questions? I think that what is so effective about both your book and this is how your complete honesty and integrity is so obvious that the truth of what you say cannot be avoided or argued away. So well done and also thankyou for being so ready to show vulnerability in a way to inform all those with ears to hear.” - Teresa Taylor, retired counsellor
'Dr Galgut's short book is an excellent and thoughtful way into this complex area for patients and indeed all health professionals dealing with cancer.’ Professor Karol Sikora, Consultant Oncologist
This is the first publication that has some of my survey results in it. The results highlight more fear of recurrence/progression than is normally reported.
Read my blog Why I Won’t “Get Over” Cancer’s Long-Term Effects on Cancer.net
Here is my latest blog for the American Society of Clinical Oncology website.
Read my latest blog Grieving for Your Old Life After Cancer here
My latest article on CancerWorld looks at what happens when people’s experience of ‘getting over’ cancer does not match optimistic assumptions held within and beyond oncology. You can read it here.
Above is the recording of the BPS webinar I participated in recently on the long term effects of cancer. We had a great response and there will be follow up events, I hope. Watch this space!
My article You should be over cancer by now is available through the Psychologist, the magazine of The British Psychological Society
‘I was astounded to find that many others were feeling as I was’
Head over to @macmillancancer's blog to hear from @cordeliagalgut on the subject of her new book; Living With the Long-Term Effects of Cancer. The Problem of Cancer's Long term Effects by Cordelia
World Cancer Day: How therapy can help coping with cancer
News from BACP 4 February 2020
BACP member Cordelia Galgut has written about acknowledging trauma and other emotional challenges in a new book