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Annales Medico-psychologiques Feb 1990Recent research has shown that patients with life-threatening illnesses have improved chances of survival and enhanced abilities to manage situational anxiety and... (Review)
Review
Recent research has shown that patients with life-threatening illnesses have improved chances of survival and enhanced abilities to manage situational anxiety and depression if, instead of recognizing the seriousness of their illness, they employ the psychological defense mechanism of denial. Denial as a coping style provides indeed marked benefits for the patient, at least during acute hospital recovery, but seems to be possibly maladaptative in the long run after hospital discharge. The present study is an attempts to review the different findings related to the use of denial by the coronary patient. The concept and its use are re-examined from the very different standpoints of the patient, the cardiologist and the psychologist, in a psychodynamic, a systemic and a psychosomatic perspective. Even if clinically meaningful, denial is also revisited through both the ethical and the epistemological approaches.
Topics: Coronary Disease; Denial, Psychological; Ethics, Medical; Humans; Psychophysiologic Disorders
PubMed: 2221660
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Perspectives in Psychiatric Care 1993The author first reviews the literature on denial as it pertains to coping with a serious physical illness. She then shares what she learned about denial when confronted...
The author first reviews the literature on denial as it pertains to coping with a serious physical illness. She then shares what she learned about denial when confronted with the diagnosis of multiple sclerosis. She highlights the therapeutic value of denial, as well as potential negative manifestations and consequences of its overusage. Dr. Handron then suggests how the nurse psychotherapist can assist clients to come to terms with the ramifications of a chronic physical illness.
Topics: Adaptation, Psychological; Adult; Denial, Psychological; Female; Humans; Multiple Sclerosis
PubMed: 8451163
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-6163.1993.tb00400.x -
South Dakota Journal of Medicine Jun 2005
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Fear; Humans; Physician's Role
PubMed: 16050655
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The Milbank Quarterly Dec 2016
Topics: Climate Change; Denial, Psychological; Greenhouse Effect; Humans; Public Health
PubMed: 27995720
DOI: 10.1111/1468-0009.12228 -
Occupational Health Nursing Nov 1979
Topics: Attitude to Death; Denial, Psychological; Humans; Philosophy; Religion
PubMed: 259958
DOI: 10.1177/216507997902701104 -
Crisis 2005
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Humans; Suicide, Attempted; Survivors
PubMed: 15762083
DOI: 10.1027/0227-5910.26.1.36 -
International Journal of Psychiatry in... 1998
Topics: Adjustment Disorders; Denial, Psychological; Disease; Health Status; Humans; Treatment Refusal
PubMed: 10207745
DOI: 10.2190/CAJ5-NPBM-BYPT-UK82 -
Lung Cancer (Amsterdam, Netherlands) Mar 2011
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Female; Humans; Male; Neoplasms
PubMed: 21168235
DOI: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2010.11.015 -
European Archives of Psychiatry and... Jun 2021
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Humans; Mental Disorders
PubMed: 33942147
DOI: 10.1007/s00406-021-01272-w -
The Canadian Nurse Oct 1989
Topics: Denial, Psychological; Humans; Nursing Assessment
PubMed: 2790718
DOI: No ID Found