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Reconstructing a sense of self in patients with chronic mental illness
1University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Perspectives in Psychiatric Care
|December 16, 1998
Abstract
Topic:
The loss and reconstruction of self in patients with a chronic mental illness.
Purpose:
To describe the loss of self and its reconstruction.
Sources:
The authors' own clinical work and review of the literature.
Conclusions:
Nurses can help patients who have undergone a loss of self to discover a more active sense of self, take stock of the self, put the self into action, and use the enhanced self as a refuge. This process involves the fostering of hope.