Caring conversations - Psychiatric patients' narratives about suffering

Journal of Advanced Nursing

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 396-404

  Fredriksson, Lennart ^a,b,c   Lindström, Unni Å ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

^b UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^c Psykiatriska Kliniken   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Communication; Conversation; Hermeneutics; Narratives; Nurse patient relations; Psychiatry; Shame; Suffering

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; NURSE PATIENT RELATIONSHIP; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; SELF CARE; SHAME; SWEDEN; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; EMPATHY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NARRATION; NURSE-PATIENT RELATIONS; NURSING METHODOLOGY RESEARCH; PSYCHIATRIC NURSING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; SELF CARE; SHAME; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWEDEN;

EID: 0036831283     PISSN: 03092402     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2648.2002.02387.x     Document Type: Article

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