'Listen, listen trust your own strange voice' (psychoanalytically informed conversations with a woman suffering serious illness)

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 826-831

  Jones, Alun ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Anxiety; Defense mechanisms; Denial; Human suffering; Liaison; Listening; Mental health; Nursing; Therapeutic conversations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EGO; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGERY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ETHICS; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VULVA; VULVA TUMOR;

DEFENSE MECHANISMS; EGO; ETHICS, NURSING; FEMALE; GYNECOLOGIC SURGICAL PROCEDURES; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; SOCIAL SUPPORT; VULVA; VULVAR NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0033112595     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.1999.00963.x     Document Type: Article

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