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Interact with those who have interest in Becker's ideas and the topics raised by his work. Get to know each other and create network connections among those who have been influenced by Becker's writings. This service is completely free. We only ask that you include your name and a brief self introduction in the body of your subscription email. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "Generative Death Anxiety," moderated by Dan Liechty. Please also visit our blog, The Denial File. It's updated twice a week and is home to much discussion in addition to thoughtful and engaging writings by our stable of contributors.
 
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Here you will find links to sites concerning Becker as well as sites that are administered by noted Becker scholars.

-Listserv: Interact with those who have interest in Becker's ideas and the topics raised by his work. Get to know each other and create network connections among those who have been influenced by Becker's writings. This service is completely free. We only ask that you include your name and a brief self introduction in the body of your subscription email. This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it "Generative Death Anxiety," moderated by Dan Liechty (read more about Generative Death Anxiety here).

-Terror Management Theory: Here you will find the website of the scientific arm that is researching and testing Becker's synthesis.

-Marie Becker-Pos: The personal website of Ernest Becker's widow, displaying her visual art.

-Personal Safety Nets: Teaching you the skills to pull people, plans and paper together to handle life's challenges and changes. An organization that nicely complements the universal Beckerian understanding at the practical personal level in our shared basic humanity. Their website can be viewed here.

-Kirby Farrell, Becker scholar and regular blogger at The Denial File, has a website here. It features his books, articles, essays and more.

-John Wynn, EBF board member and director of the Swedish Cancer Institute Department of PsychoOncology, has given a talk for TEDMED. The video can be found at the TEDMED site here, and at YouTube here. A description from Dr. Wynn: "How much of your will to succeed comes from the knowledge that you will, someday, die?"

-Connie Barlow has a new project called "Death, Budgets, and Generational Justice" in 2011. You can experience it in three different formats:
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Becker on Otto Rank

"Rank's thought always spanned several fields of knowledge: when he talked about, say, anthropological data and you expected anthropological insight, you got something else, something more. Living as we do in an era of hyperspecialization we have lost the expectation of this kind of delight: the experts give us manageable thrills—if they thrill us at all."

From the preface to Denial of Death

more on Otto Rank here