[Imagination of women with breast cancer. About the etiologic theories of 10 patients].
The announcement of the diagnosis of a breast cancer causes a rupture in the continuity of life of the patients. For women with such a potentially mortal illness, the development of an etiologic theory, falling under a subjective appropriation of the disease, allows them to face the traumatism of the diagnostic and the course of the cancer itself. These theories, often spontaneous, sometimes supported by the psychologist's work, are a great ally for the somatician in the therapy of those women.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000209:etiology / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D019018:Imagery, Psychotherapy; D008875:Middle Aged