Books, Chapters and Papers

Books, audiobooks, and eBooks by Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross are available through independent bookstores, major online retailers, and publishers worldwide.

• On Death & Dying (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1969) — ISBN: 978-0684839375
• Questions & Answers on Death & Dying (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1974) — ISBN: 978-0684839412
• Death: The Final Stage of Growth (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1975) — ISBN: 978-0684846311
• To Live Until We Say Goodbye (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1978) — ISBN: 978-0671244427
• The Dougy Letter: A Letter to a Dying Child (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press, 1979) — ISBN: 978-0890872487
• Living With Death & Dying (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1981) — ISBN: 978-0684842238
• Remember The Secret (Celestial Arts/Ten Speed Press, 1981) — ISBN: 978-0890872975
• Working It Through (Simon & Schuster/Touchstone, 1982) — ISBN: 978-0684846168
• On Children & Death (Simon & Schuster, 1983) — ISBN: 978-0684839399
• AIDS: The Ultimate Challenge (Simon & Schuster, 1988) — ISBN: 978-0671646856
• On Life After Death (Celestial Arts, 1991) — ISBN: 978-0890876041
• Learn to Die, Learn to Live (Sterben lernen, Leben lernen) (German edition, Silberschnur, 1992) — ISBN: 978-3898450527
• Every Ending is a Bright Beginning (Jedes Ende ist ein strahlender Beginn) (German edition, Silberschnur, 1992) — ISBN: 978-3898450534
• Live in Love: When the Soul Leaves the Body (In Liebe leben: Wenn die Seele den Körper verlässt) (German edition, Silberschnur, 1994) — ISBN: 978-3898450879
• Death is of Vital Importance (also known as Making the Most of the In-between) (Out of Print in English; later revised as The Tunnel and the Light, 1995) — ISBN: 978-1885394373
• Unfolding the Wings of Love (Der Liebe Flügel entfalten) (German edition, Silberschnur, 1996) — ISBN: 978-3898451401
• AIDS & Love: The Conference in Barcelona, (Spain) 1996 (Out of print)
• Longing to Go Back Home (Sehnsucht nach Hause) (German edition, Silberschnur, 1997) — ISBN: 978-3898451760
• The Wheel of Life (Simon & Schuster/Scribner, 1997) — ISBN: 978-0684846318
• Why Are We Here (Warum sind wir hier) (German edition, Silberschnur, 1999) — ISBN: 978-3898452507
• The Tunnel and the Light (Avalon / Marlowe & Co., 1999) — ISBN: 978-1569246900
• Life Lessons (with David Kessler) (Simon & Schuster, 2001) — ISBN: 978-0743201112
• Real Taste of Life: A Photographic Journal (2003) — ISBN: 978-0974765001
• On Grief and Grieving (with David Kessler) (Simon & Schuster, 2005) — ISBN: 978-0743263448

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Essays, Anthologies & Academic Publications

• “The Dying Patient’s Point of View,” in The Dying Patient, edited by Orville G. Brim Jr., Howard E. Freeman, Sol Levine & Norman A. Scotch (Russell Sage Foundation, New York, 1970), Chapter 8, pp. 156–170.
• “The Experience of Death,” in The Vestibule, by Jesse E. Weiss (Ashley Books, 1972), Chapter 5, pp. 49–53.
• “Crisis Management of Dying Persons and Their Families,” in Emergency-Psychiatric Care: The Management of Mental Health Crises, edited by H.L.P. Resnick and H.L. Ruben (1974), Chapter 8, pp. 143–156.
• “The Loneliness in Dying,” in Anatomy of Loneliness, edited by R. Cohen, V. Audy & J. Hartog (Macmillan).
• “To Live and To Die,” edited by Robert H. Williams (Springer-Verlag, New York, 1973).
• “The Patient, Death and the Family” (In Press, Rochester, NY, 1976).
• “Life/Death Education for Our Children,” in Parent Guidance, by L. Eugene Arnold, M.D.
• “Death and Dying,” in The Study of Society, Second Edition (The Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, CT, 1977), Unit 24: Current Issues, pp. 512–530.
• “Aging,” in Social Problems, by Ian Robertson (Random House), Chapter 11, pp. 291–313.
• “Was Bedeutet der Tod Fuer Sie?” (Ariston, Switzerland, 1983).
• “Kubler-Ross’s Theory of Stages of Death and Dying,” in Psychology: The Frontiers of Behavior, Second Edition, by Ronald E. Smith, Irwin G. Sarason & Barbara Sarason (Harper & Row, 1983), Chapter 13.
• “Hospice Care for the Dying Child,” in Special Kind of Love: Care of the Dying Child, by R. Buckingham (Continuum, New York, 1983).
• “What I Believe,” in The Courage of Conviction, edited by Philip Berman (Center for the Study of Contemporary Belief, Santa Barbara).
• “Sterbehilfe — Mitleid Oder Mord?” (Coprint-Verlag, Germany, 1984).
• “Lecciones de la Agonia,” in Sociologia de la Muerte, edited by James Hansen & Thomas Frantz (Spain, 1984).
• “My Work with People with Acquired Immune Deficiency,” in Psycho-Immunity and the Healing Process, edited by Jason Serinus (Celestial Arts, 1986), Chapter 4.
• “Lessons of the Soul: Soul Gifts in Disguise,” in Handbook for the Soul, edited by Richard Carlson & Benjamin Shield (Little, Brown Publishers, 1995), Chapter 5.
• “Tying Rocks to Clouds,” by William Elliott (Quest Books, 1995), Chapter 3, p. 13.

Articles & Papers

“The Dying Patient as Teacher: An Experiment and an Experience,” The Chicago Theological Seminary Register, Vol. LVII, No. 3, pp. 1–14, December 1966.

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, and Anderson, James. “Psychotherapy with the Least Expected: Modified Group Therapy with Blind Clients,” Rehabilitation Literature, Vol. 29, No. 3, pp. 73–76, March 1968.

“Interview with a Terminal Cancer Patient,” Geriatric Focus, Knoll Pharmaceutical Co., Orange, NJ, Vol. 9, No. 4, April 1970.

“The Care of the Dying: Whose Job Is It?” Psychiatry in Medicine, Vol. 1, No. 2, pp. 103–107, April 1970.

“Coping Patterns of Patients Who Know Their Diagnosis,” Catastrophic Illness in the Seventies: Critical Issues and Complex Decisions (Proceedings of the Fourth National Symposium, Hotel Baltimore, New York, NY), Oct. 15–16, 1970, Cancer Care, Inc., of the National Cancer Foundation, pp. 14–19.

“A Teaching Approach to the Issues of Death and Dying,” Archives of the Foundation of Thanatology, Vol. 2, Fall 1970, pp. 125–127.

“Psychotherapy for the Dying Patient,” Current Psychiatric Therapies, Vol. V, Grune and Stratton, Inc., 1970, pp. 110–117.

“What Is It Like to Be Dying?” American Journal of Nursing, 1971.

“How the Patient Faces Death,” Public Welfare (Journal of the American Public Welfare Association), Vol. XXIX, No. 1, January 1971, pp. 56–60.

“Dignity in Death,” Medical Bulletin Naval Regional Medical Center and Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, VA, Vol. 6, No. 4, Winter 1971, pp. 76–85.

“Dying with Dignity,” The Canadian Nurse, Vol. 67, No. 10, October 1971, pp. 31–35.

“Anger Before Death,” Nursing 1971, Vol. 1, No. 2, December 1971, pp. 12–14.

“The Five Stages of Dying,” Encyclopedia Science Supplement, Grolier, Inc., 1971.

“On the Use of Psychopharmacologic Agents for the Dying Patient and the Bereaved,” Journal of Thanatology, Vol. 2, Winter–Spring 1972, pp. 563–566.

“The Right to Die with Dignity,” Bulletin of the Menninger Foundation, Vol. 36, No. 3, May 1972.

“On Death and Dying,” Therapeutic Grand Rounds, No. 36, Journal of the American Medical Association, July 10, 1972, Vol. 221, No. 2, pp. 174–179.

“The Family Physician and the Dying Patient,” Canadian Family Physician, October 1972, pp. 79–83.

“Hope and the Dying Patient,” Psychosocial Aspects of Terminal Care, 1972.

“Facing Up to Death,” Today’s Education (Journal of the National Education Association), Vol. 61, No. 1, January 1972, pp. 30–32. Also published in Readings in Human Development, 1973–74, pp. 258–260.

“Letter to a Nurse About Death,” Nursing, Vol. 3, No. 10, October 1973.

“The Stages of Dying,” PHP Institute of Tokyo, November 1973.

“Death: How Do We Face You?” Modern Perspectives in Psychogeriatrics, Brunner/Mazel, New York, NY, 1973.

“Lessons from the Dying,” Sociological de la Muerte, Madrid, Spain, 1974, pp. 15–24. First published in Tribuna Medica, Madrid, Spain, 1973.

“Dying from the Patient’s Point of View,” Triangle: Sandoz Journal of Medical Science, Vol. 13, No. 1, 1974.

“Death,” Encyclopaedia Britannica, Macropedia, Vol. 5, 1974, pp. 526–529.

“The Languages of the Dying Patients,” Humanitas, Vol. X, No. 1, February 1974.

“Dying as a Human Psychological Event,” Concilium: Theology in the Age of Renewal, Vol. 4, No. 10, April 1974.

“Facing Death,” in Modern Perspectives in the Psychiatry of Old Age, edited by John G. Howells, M.D., Brunner/Mazel, Inc., New York, 1975, pp. 531–539.

“Death in Other Cultures,” Crux (Toronto Graduate Christian Fellowship Publication), Vol. II, No. 3, 1973–74, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

“Souffrance Commercialisee Et Souffrance Cachee,” Concilium 119, 1976, pp. 339–350.

“Sufrimiento Comercializade Y Sufrimiento Escondido,” Concilium 119, 1976, pp. 558–564.

“Geocommercialiseerd Lijden Tegenover Verborgen Lijden,” Concilium 119, 1976, pp. 27–37.

“Soffreenza Commercializzata Contro La Sofferenza Nascosta,” Concilium: Rivista Internazionale di Teologia, 1976, pp. 50–62.

“Sofrimento Comercializado vs. Sofrimento Oculto,” Revue Internationale de Théologie, 1976, pp. 27–35.

Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth, and J. William Worden, Ph.D. “Attitudes and Experiences of Death Workshop Attendees,” Omega, Vol. 8, No. 2, 1977–78, pp. 91–106.

“Do Leaders Die Differently?” Leaders Magazine, First Quarter, 1980.

Book Reviews & Forewords (Partial Listing)

Life or Death, Ethics and Options, Labby, Daniel, et al., Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1968.

Suicide, Choron, Jacque, 1972.

Dying, Hinton, John, Vol. 2, No. 1, Penguin Books, 1972.

Death Comes Home, Stephens, Simon, Morehouse-Barlow Co., Inc., 1972.

Widow, Caine, Lynn, William Morrow & Co., Inc., 1974.

The Art of Dying, Neale, Robert E., Harper & Row Publishers, 1974.

The Denial of Death, Becker, Ernest, Free Press, 1974.

Jewish Reflections on Death, Reimer, Jack, ed., Schocken Books, 1974.

Free Fall, Smith, Joann, Judson Press, 1974. (Foreword)

Life After Life, Moody, Raymond, Mockingbird Press, 1975. (Foreword)

The Waiting World, Matson, Archie, Harper & Row Publishers, 1975.

We Are But a Moment’s Sunlight, Adler, Sheila, Simon and Schuster, Inc., 1976.

Too Young to Die, Klagsbrun, Francine, Houghton Mifflin Co., Boston, 1976.

Erin, Mourning Journey to Joy, Mulkern, Micki, Pine Hill Press, Freeman, SD, 1976.

The Human Encounter with Death, Stanislav Grof and Joan Halifax, 1977. (Foreword)

The Fire That Will Not Die, McBride, Michele, Chicago Review, 1979.

Last Letter to the Pebble People, Caughlan, Craig and Michael, Unity Press, Santa Cruz, CA, 1979. (Foreword)

Reincarnation, The Phoenix Mystery, Cranston, Sylvia, Warner Books, Inc., New York, NY, 1979. (Foreword)

A Journey Through Anger, Esselstyn, Micki. (In print)

Born to Live, McGarey, Gladys T., M.D., Gabriel Press, 1980. (Foreword)

For All That Has Been, Cameron, Jean, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1982. (Foreword)

Who Dies, LeVine, Stephen, Anchor Press, 1982.

An Ambitious Sort of Grief, Cohn, Marion D., Ide House, Mesquite, TX, 1983. (Foreword)

Heading Towards Omega, Ring, Kenneth, Wm. Morrow & Co., Inc., New York, 1983. (Foreword)

Easy Death, Da Free John, The Dawn Horse Press, 1983.

A Manual of Death Education and Simple Burial, Morgan, Ernst, Celo Press, 1984.

Clara Elisabeth, 19 Years Old, van Wyck, Anne, van Holkema and Warendorf, Publishers, 1984. (Introduction)

Traumzeit und Innerer Raum – Die Welt der Schmanen, Kalweit, Holger, Scherz Verlag/O.W. Barth Verlag, Publishers, 1984. (Foreword)

Coming Home: A Guide to Home Care for the Terminally Ill, Duda, Deborah, W.W. Norton & Co., Inc., 1985.

The Language of Drawing, Furth, Gregg, Ph.D., Ian Fenton, Publisher, London, England, 1985. (Foreword)

What About the Children? The Threat of Nuclear War and Our Responsibility to Preserve This Planet for Future Generations, Parents and Teachers for Social Responsibility, Inc., 1986. (Review)

Remembering Me, Light, Danielle, Mt. Shasta Publications, Mt. Shasta, CA, 1986. (Endorsement)

Prelude to Conception, Huxley, Laura, 1986.

A Kabbalist in Spirit, A Family Friend, Richmond, Norton, 1986.

Heavenly Ladder, Hoffman, Edward, M.D., 1986.

The Frumkin-Leonard Questions and Answers on AIDS, Frumkin, L.R., M.D., 1986.

Stardust, Zinn, Rebecca, 1986.

Love, Medicine and Miracles, Siegel, Bernard, M.D., Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1986.

How New Evidence of God Can Bring You Joy, Rasmussen, Royal, 1986.

Hypnotherapy and Reincarnation, Major, Charles, M.D., 1986.

The Effects of Instruction on Test-Taking Skills in Second Grade Black Children, Kalechstein, Pearl; Kalechstein, Mel; and Docter, Robert, 1986.

The Effects of Test-Wiseness Training on Reading Achievement, Test Anxiety, and Locus of Control in Elementary School Children, Kalechstein, Pearl; Hocevar, Dennis; and Kalechstein, Mel, 1986.

Hands of Light: A Guide to Healing Through the Human Energy Field, Brennan, Barbara Ann, 1987.

The Fellowship, Steiger, Brad, 1987.

The Hospice Handbook, Larry Beresford, 1993. (Foreword)

Man’s Search for Ultimate Meaning, Frankl, Viktor E., 1997. (Foreword)