Maggie Watson & David W. Kissane 
Handbook of Psychotherapy in Cancer Care [PDF ebook] 

Maggie Watson joined the Royal Marsden Hospital and
Institute of Cancer Research, the world’s largest cancer
treatment and research centre, in 1986, as Cancer Research UK
Research Fellow. She worked on studies linked to psychological
therapies, psychological response and survival, screening and
quality of life in cancer patients. In 1988 she qualified as a
Clinical Psychologist and in 1991 was appointed Consultant Clinical
Psychologist at the Royal Marsden Hospital. She was appointed Head
of Service in 2003 and became an Honorary Professor in the Research
Department of Clinical, Health and Educational Psychology
University College London in 2008. She has worked consistently
since 1979 with cancer patients and has published widely in this
area. In 1983 she co-founded the British Psychosocial Oncology
Society. She has been Co-Editor, alongside Professor Jimmie
Holland, of Psycho-oncology since it was established in
1992. She has been author/editor of five books including
Counselling People with Cancer (Burton M & Watson M,
Wiley). She is a practicing therapist specialising in Cognitive
Behavioural Therapy and Problem-focussed Therapy and an active
researcher. She is currently Vice-President of the International
Psycho-oncology Society (taking over as President in 2010 for two
years) and Co-Chair of the society’s publications’ panel.
David Kissane is an academic consultation-liaison
psychiatrist, psycho-oncologist and psychotherapy researcher in
cancer and palliative care. In 1996, he launched Diplomas of
Palliative Medicine and Psycho-Oncology at the University of
Melbourne during his tenure as foundation Professor and Director of
Palliative Medicine. In 2003, he moved to succeed Dr Jimmie
Holland, MD, as Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry and
Behavioral Sciences at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in
New York. He is the incumbent in the Jimmie C. Holland Chair in
Psycho-Oncology, Attending Psychiatrist at The Memorial Hospital
for Cancer and Allied Diseases, and Professor of Psychiatry at the
Weill Medical College of Cornell University. He is a past President
of the International Psycho-Oncology Society (2000-03) and
recipient of their Arthur Sutherland Award for Lifetime Achievement
in Psycho-oncology in 2008. His academic interests include health
communication skills; couple, group and family psychotherapy
trials; studies of existential distress; and the ethics of
end-of-life care. He is the author of over 150 publications,
including two books, Family Focused Grief Therapy (2002) and
Handbook of Communication in Oncology and Palliative Care
(2009). At Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, he has established a
state-of-the-art Communication Skills Training and Research
Laboratory and a Psychotherapy Research Laboratory. He is Principal
Investigator on a range of studies, including dose intensity
studies of family therapy in advanced cancer, intimacy-enhancing
couples therapy in prostate cancer, facilitation skills development
and communication skills training for communication about
survivorship, genetic risk, and end-of-life care.