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Demoralization syndrome: New insights in psychosocial cancer care
Author(s) -
Grassi Luigi,
Nanni Maria Giulia
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
cancer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.052
H-Index - 304
eISSN - 1097-0142
pISSN - 0008-543X
DOI - 10.1002/cncr.30022
Subject(s) - feeling , psychosocial , medicine , stressor , situational ethics , cancer , social support , disease , expression (computer science) , psychiatry , psychotherapist , clinical psychology , psychology , social psychology , computer science , programming language
Demoralization is confirmed as a significant clinical dimension that needs to be part of the vision physicians should have when treating cancer patients. It is not a psychiatric disease but the expression of an unfolding, situational existence already involved in an irreducibly complex social world, in which cancer and its consequences as traumatic stressors impact the patient's experience and feelings, inducing a profound sense of emotional suffering. See also pages 2251–9, 2260–7.