The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer

Gencoz, Faruk; Yurduşen, Sema; AKYÜZ, CANAN

The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer

Sema YURDUŞEN, (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Çocuk Onkoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye)

Canan AKYÜZ, (Hacettepe Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Çocuk Onkoloji Anabilim Dalı, Ankara, Türkiye)

Faruk GENÇÖZ (Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Psikoloji Bölümü, Ankara, Türkiye)

Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi

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Yıl: 2020 Cilt: 23 Sayı: 2 Sayfa Aralığı: 214 - 228 Metin Dili: İngilizce İndeks Tarihi: 07-12-2020

The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer

Öz:

Having a child with cancer has an enormous impact ontheir mothers. Usually mothers describe their feeling as“losing some part of themselves”. In order to understandthis traumatic experience on mothers’ psychology, psychoanalytic explanations of self/self-cohesion experiences should be taken into account. In this study a comparative case analysis was performed using narrativeinquiry and narrative analysis. Two mothers were chosen.Each mother was interviewed about their self-selfobjectneeds and its relation to their traumatic cancer experience. The narrative analysis revealed that, the motherwho had a weak self cohesion before the diagnosereported more traumatic narratives in comparison to themother who had a healthy self cohesion. Not all motherswith children who has cancer were affected to the sameextent from this traumatic experience. Understandingmother’s earlier and present selfobject transferences willhelp clinician to intervene to the right person.Understanding mot-hers’ distress from the psychoanalytic perspective and intervene at that level not onlyimprove mothers’ well-being but also the children’s andthe society’s at large.

Anahtar Kelime:

Çocukları kanser tanısı almış annelerin kendilik bütünlüğünün önemi

Öz:

Kanser tanısı almış bir çocuğa sahip olmanın anneler üzerinde muazzam etkileri vardır. Genelde anneler duygularını “bir parçamı kaybediyormuşum gibi” şeklinde tanımlarlar. Bu travmatik deneyimin annelerin psikolojileri üzerindeki etkilerini anlamak için kendilik/kendilik bütünlüğü deneyimleri olarak anılan psikanalitik açıklamalar dikkate alınmalıdır. Bu çalışmada öyküsel sorgulama ve öyküsel analiz yöntemi kullanılarak karşılaştırmalı vaka analizi yapılmıştır. Çocukları kanser tanısı almış iki anne ile yaşadıkları travmatik deneyimler ve bunların kendilik-kendiliknesnesi ihtiyaçları ile ilişkisi konusunda görüşmeler yapılmıştır. Çocuğu kanser tanısı almış tüm anneler bu travmatik deneyimden aynı düzeyde etkilenmemektedir. Annelerin geçmiş ve şu andaki kendiliknesnesi aktarımlarını anlamak klinisyene doğru kişiye müdahale emesi için yardımcı olacaktır. Annelerin yaşadığı stresi psikanalitik bakış açısı ile ele almak ve bu düzeyde müdahale etmek sadece annelerin iyilik halini yükseltmeyecek aynı zamanda çocukların ve daha büyük ölçekte de toplumun iyilik haline katkıda bulunacaktır.

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APA	Yurduşen S, AKYÜZ C, Gencoz F (2020). The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer. Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, 23(2), 214 - 228.
Chicago	Yurduşen Sema,AKYÜZ CANAN,Gencoz Faruk The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer. Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi 23, no.2 (2020): 214 - 228.
MLA	Yurduşen Sema,AKYÜZ CANAN,Gencoz Faruk The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer. Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi, vol.23, no.2, 2020, ss.214 - 228.
AMA	Yurduşen S,AKYÜZ C,Gencoz F The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer. Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi. 2020; 23(2): 214 - 228.
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