The psychologist's support to families in their morning process for relatives having terminal cancer

Authors

  • André Luiz Picolli da Silva

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v7i1.3204

Keywords:

mourning, câncer, hospital

Abstract

Nowadays, our society has manifested more and more inaptness in dealing with death issues. When we are suddenly faced with the imminent death of a loved one, we feel unprepared and dont know how to react. This article highlights the difficulties of working with a familys bereavement process for terminally ill cancer patients and provides practical orientation for psychologists who work in surgical clinics of general hospitals. The bereavement process has its own difficulties, besides the stigma of a secular disease, and the aggressiveness of a surgical situation, allied with a repulsive environment, can create a very a condition in which there is o the appearance of fantasies, personal conflicts and pathological frame of mind. These are some of the principal objects for intervention which the psychologist must face himself/herself in the hospital ambit.

Keywords: mourning; câncer; hospital.

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da Silva, A. L. P. (2003). The psychologist’s support to families in their morning process for relatives having terminal cancer. Interação Em Psicologia, 7(1). https://doi.org/10.5380/psi.v7i1.3204

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Vol. 7 No. 1 (2003)

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