"Is it me, or isn't it?" - Transplanted organs and their donors as transitional objects

American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 279-289

  Goetzmann, Lutz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

organ donor; organ integration; transitional object; transitional space; transplanted organs

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; ORGAN DONOR; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PERSONALITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOSOMATICS; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; RECIPIENT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; BODY IMAGE; FANTASY; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTERVIEW, PSYCHOLOGICAL; LUNG TRANSPLANTATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; ORGAN TRANSPLANTATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THEORY; SELF CONCEPT; TISSUE DONORS;

EID: 4544317388     PISSN: 00029548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TAJP.0000041262.36839.fd     Document Type: Article

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