SUMMARY
This paper addresses some issues in palliative-care work that emerged in a short-term staff-support group, and shows that work with terminally-ill cancer patients had an impact on the staff and team as a whole. In dealing with distressing and disturbing feelings related to work with dying patients, the staff used manic defences and denial of differences within the team.
This paper was read at a Regional Mediterranean Conference of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy on ‘New Integration, Partnerships and Obligations’, 29 Aug.– 1 Sept. 2001, Zadia, Croatia.
This paper was read at a Regional Mediterranean Conference of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy on ‘New Integration, Partnerships and Obligations’, 29 Aug.– 1 Sept. 2001, Zadia, Croatia.
Notes
This paper was read at a Regional Mediterranean Conference of the International Association of Group Psychotherapy on ‘New Integration, Partnerships and Obligations’, 29 Aug.– 1 Sept. 2001, Zadia, Croatia.