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The Nurse, the Patient, and the Illness: An Object Relations Approach to Nursing
Author(s) -
Teising Martin
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
perspectives in psychiatric care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 35
eISSN - 1744-6163
pISSN - 0031-5990
DOI - 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1997.tb00554.x
Subject(s) - nursing , object (grammar) , psychology , medicine , computer science , artificial intelligence
topic . An object relations approach to the patient's experience of illness. purpose . To explore possible unconscious meanings of illness to patients, and antecedents to the meanings. source . The author's clinical experience. conclusions . Nurses can work more effectively with patients when they have an understanding of early object relations theory, the defenses of projective identification and splitting, and their own c ountertransfernce reactions to patients and their illnesses.