TY  - JOUR
TI  - The importance of mothers’ self cohesion when their children diagnosed were with cancer
AB  - 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.
AU  - Gencoz, Faruk
AU  - Yurduşen, Sema
AU  - AKYÜZ, CANAN
PY  - 2020
JO  - Klinik Psikiyatri Dergisi
VL  - 23
IS  - 2
SN  - 1302-0099
SP  - 214
EP  - 228
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/383513
ER  -