Case Study : Denial in a Cancer Patient(Psychosomatic Medicine Training Seminar/Palliative Care "Psychosomatic Approach to Cancer Patients")

Abstract

Denial is a clinically relevant concept in cancer patients and their families. Serious conflicts owing to a denial, one of the defense mechanisms, have used to arise frequently among cancer patients, their families and the medical stuff. A case of a 60-year-old terminal cancer patient with her families who have strongly expressed anger and used a denial will be presented in order to discuss our problems among medical participants. In order to learn difficult communications between patients and medical stuff, we need not only a knowledges of defense mechanisms but should have such simulated experiences as this case study.