'it isn't fair': Postoperative depression and other manifestations of survivor guilt

General Hospital Psychiatry

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 43-48

  Blacher, Richard S ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONFLICT; DEATH; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMAN; MALE; NEUROSIS; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PATIENT; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; FEMALE; GUILT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT CARE TEAM; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; RECURRENCE; SICK ROLE; SURVIVORS;

EID: 0034594472     PISSN: 01638343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-8343(99)00059-6     Document Type: Article

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