Open AccessGetting out or remaining in the cage of inauthentic self: The meaning of existential challenges in patients' with cancer
Author(s) -
Zohreh Khoshnood,
Sedigheh Iranmanesh,
Masoud Rayyani,
Mahlagha Dehghan
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
indian journal of palliative care/indian journal of palliative care
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 26
eISSN - 1998-3735
pISSN - 0973-1075
DOI - 10.4103/ijpc.ijpc_179_17
Subject(s) - existentialism , loneliness , denial , meaning (existential) , feeling , psychology , cancer , identity (music) , theme (computing) , anger , social psychology , psychotherapist , psychoanalysis , medicine , aesthetics , epistemology , philosophy , computer science , operating system
Cancer as a life-threatening disease develops a range of existential challenges in persons. These challenges cause the patients to encounter some existential questions and tensions. This study method focuses on a person's experience about them.