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The nurse, the patient, and the illness: an object relations approach to nursing
1Fachbereich Pflege und Gesundheit, Fachhochschule Frankfurt/Main, Germany.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
|January 16, 1998
Abstract
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 countertransference reactions to patients and their illnesses.