Psychosomatic aspects of cancer: an overview.
An overview of research on the psychosomatic aspects of cancer indicated that earlier psychoanalytic interpretations which focused on intrapsychic elements have given way to considerations of rehabilitation of victims of cancer and assistance with the complex emotional reactions of patients to terminal disease and of patients' families both to the disease and to death.
D000328:Adult; D001828:Body Image; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D008175:Lung Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology / Q000523:psychology*; D010551:Personality; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders; D012094:Repression, Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological; D002583:Uterine Cervical Neoplasms / Q000523:psychology