Families in Intensive Care: Support When Emerging from a Coma
Minjard, Raphaël
Families in Intensive Care: Support When Emerging from a Coma - 2013.
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This article takes a close look at what place families around the bedside of comatose patients take and their potential role in the process of awakening, especially as far as the work on memory and sharing affect (mainly shame) are concerned. It is based on a number of years of working experience of a psychologist in an adult intensive care unit. Intensive care is a place where each object’s location is thought out according to its utility in the patient’s care, but hardly at all within the perspective of the circle of family and close friends. Some objects like the family bear with them a level of complexity that has an emotional resonance. The article shows that when accompanied by the psychologist and the medical team, this complexity can play a positive role in the awakening process and in the patient’s work of re-appropriation of his or her past life.
Families in Intensive Care: Support When Emerging from a Coma - 2013.
71
This article takes a close look at what place families around the bedside of comatose patients take and their potential role in the process of awakening, especially as far as the work on memory and sharing affect (mainly shame) are concerned. It is based on a number of years of working experience of a psychologist in an adult intensive care unit. Intensive care is a place where each object’s location is thought out according to its utility in the patient’s care, but hardly at all within the perspective of the circle of family and close friends. Some objects like the family bear with them a level of complexity that has an emotional resonance. The article shows that when accompanied by the psychologist and the medical team, this complexity can play a positive role in the awakening process and in the patient’s work of re-appropriation of his or her past life.
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