title: How Clinicians Feel about Working with Spouses of the Chronically Ill.
abstract: Clinicians who provide psychotherapy to spouses or partners of the chronically ill were solicited through listserves of psychodynamic and other organizations. The current report excluded those therapists working with spouses of dementia patients. Interviews were conducted with clinicians who responded. The interviews highlight the challenges commonly encountered by psychotherapeutic work with this cohort of therapy patients. A comparison is drawn that shows both overlap and distinctions between the experiences of those therapists engaging with spouses of chronically ill patients without a dementing process and those working with spouses of chronically ill patients who do suffer from a dementing process.
authors: Fellow, American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, New York Medical College.
authors: Douglas H
authors: DH
authors: Ingram
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D002983:Clinical Competence; D017281:Cost of Illness; D003379:Countertransference; D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology; D056348:Emotional Intelligence; D005192:Family Health; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011570:Psychiatry / Q000379:methods*; D064889:Psychotherapy, Psychodynamic / Q000379:methods*; D012944:Social Support; D018454:Spouses / Q000523:psychology*; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy