Existential distress in cancer: Alleviating suffering from fundamental loss and change

A severe life threatening illness can challenge fundamental expectations about security, interrelatedness with others, justness, controllability, certainty, and hope for a long and fruitful life. That distress and suffering but also growth and mastery may arise from confrontation with an existential...

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Published in:	Psycho-oncology (Chichester, England) Vol. 27; no. 11; pp. 2525 - 2530
Main Authors:	Vehling, Sigrun, Kissane, David W.
Format:	Journal Article
Language:	English
Published:	England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.11.2018
Subjects:	Adaptation, Psychological Anxiety Attitude to Death Autonomy Cancer Clinical outcomes Clinical significance Comorbidity Conflict Coping Death & dying Death anxiety demoralization existential distress existential suffering existential therapy Existentialism - psychology Expectations Fear Fear & phobias fear of cancer recurrence Grief Health services Health status Hopelessness Human dignity Humans Life Life threatening sickness Loneliness Mental health services Meta-analysis Neoplasms - mortality Neoplasms - psychology Palliative Care - psychology Psychological distress Recurrence Regret Right to die Self Concept sense of dignity Shame Stress, Psychological Suffering Treatment methods existential distress sense of dignity existential therapy fear of cancer recurrence hopelessness death anxiety demoralization cancer existential suffering
ISSN:	1057-9249, 1099-1611, 1099-1611
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