title: Investigating the therapeutic potential of a heritage-object focused intervention: a qualitative study.
abstract: This study explores the therapeutic potential of heritage-object handling in nurse-patient encounters with women facing cancer. Ten women participated in an object-focused conversation with a nurse specialist. Sessions were audio-tape recorded and transcribed. Kleinian theory framed the analysis to reveal the individual ways women 'used' the object in the session. Professionally observed heritage-object handling provides an aid to discussion with patients and has potential as an assessment platform for therapeutic work or as an intervention approach in its own right. Further longitudinal controlled trials are needed to evaluate such benefits, particularly given the depth of the talk revealed in this study.
authors: University College London, UK. a.lanceley@ucl.ac.uk
authors: Anne
authors: A
authors: Lanceley
authors: Guy
authors: G
authors: Noble
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Johnson
authors: Nyala
authors: N
authors: Balogun
authors: Helen
authors: H
authors: Chatterjee
authors: Usha
authors: U
authors: Menon
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001154:Art; D001294:Attitude to Health; D003469:Culture; D005260:Female; D005833:Genital Neoplasms, Female / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D009769:Object Attachment; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods