title: [Psychodynamic aspects of coping with illness in stroke--experiences with a psychotherapy group].
abstract: The authors describe their experience of a group--psychotherapy with stroke patients during the phase of inpatient neurological rehabilitation. The process of coping in stroke patients shows similarities with grief reactions following the loss of important objects. But it is usually complicated by the fact that the physical injury is experienced as a narcissistic trauma resulting in low self--esteem and in feelings of anger and despair. Psychotherapeutic interventions can help to deal with such negative affects and should facilitate a mourning process, which is inevitable if adaptation to a life with a physical handicap should succeed.
authors.affiliation: Abteilung Psychotherapie und Psychosomatik, Universität Freiburg.
authors.forename: C E
authors.initials: CE
authors.lastname: Scheidt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schwind
mesh_terms: D000203:Activities of Daily Living / Q000523:psychology; D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002561:Cerebrovascular Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group; D012803:Sick Role
vernacular_title: Zur Psychodynamik der Krankheitsverarbeitung bei Schlaganfall--Erfahrungen einer psychotherapeutischen Gruppe.