Transient paranoia and the 'gift' in terminal illness.
A case report of a transient paranoia in a man with a terminal illness is presented with three basic aims: (1) to highlight the delicate nature of the treatment of the gravely ill and to illustrate what may have been an iatrogenic panic; (2) to examine the development of the symptoms in such a way as to suggest a theoretical synthesis of the views of Kurt Eissler and those of D. W. Winnicott; (3) to illustrate the dramatic effect of a brief, dynamically informed intervention.
D000328:Adult; D001293:Attitude to Death; D006801:Humans; D007945:Leukemia, Lymphoid / Q000523:psychology*; D008297:Male; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000523:psychology*