title: [Psychological approach to congenital hand deformities. Congenital deformities, the desire to know].
abstract: The psychological approach to congenital malformation is determined by the stares of the others and the individual's needs. The relationship of the body of the person afflicted with a congenital malformation is a question of aesthetic suffering and not of functional use. Caught up in a network of a priori and anxiety-based projections, it is difficult for patients, children, adolescents or adults, to express themselves and make themselves heard. This multi-faced issue poses a basic problem for a society, which penalizes physical deformity. Beyond the medical techniques, the subject's ethic has to be considered.
authors: anniepillet@wanadoo.fr
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authors: Didierjean-Pillet
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D006228:Hand Deformities, Congenital / Q000523:psychology* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007398:Interpersonal Relations; D010347:Patient Care Planning; D011287:Prejudice; D011788:Quality of Life; D012649:Self Concept; D012919:Social Behavior; D013315:Stress, Psychological