The stakes of remission support care.
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Date publication
octobre 2010
Lien Pubmed
Résumé
The temporality of the subject cannot be superimposed to the medical one: Remission time certainly tells it enough. What can be at stake in a remission support unit such as the one recently created at the Centre de Lutte Contre le Cancer in Reims, as it is organized on a pair-team basis with a cancer care experienced general practitioner and a psychologist-psychoanalyst? From the moment when the illusion of identity is broken by the diagnosis shock to the time of remission when the substitutive surface identity produced by the "framing-effect" of long-terms treatments collapses, landmarks are emerging for a clinical renewal in cancer care: Problematics of identity, prosthetic effect of the care institution, loss of dropping, maternal bereavement elaboration... For we approximately know what it is to be ill or not, but what do we know of the person who "has had a cancer"? The extension of Support Care to the phase of remission is probably necessary... (C) 2010 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
Référence
Ann Med-psychol. 2010 Oct;168(8):636-8.