This article develops the research question about the logic of the grief process when a subject lost is caused by forced disappearance of a loved one. Even though the study of the sources allows to state that the common response to this event is a suspended bereavement, research results allow to propose that there are collective -justice and ritual...
People living with cardiovascular disease find themselves permanently affected by uneasiness, disfunctionality and the feeling it causes. This situation creates changes in the patient’s self-esteem, losses, mourning for these losses, changes in their lifestyle and the perception of death; this scenery is part not only of the individual, but it also...
Starting from the fact, demonstrated by psychoanalysis, that we are affected by our memory; from the traumatic character that our memory takes in many occasions and considering the lack of effectiveness of forgetting as a protection mechanism, without going through the processed of re-remembering and writing the traumatic events; this text poses th...
A través de dos situaciones de enfrentamiento y manejo de la muerte, que han representado un momento crítico en mi vida, una como estudiante y la otra ahora como docente, he deseado compartir esta reflexión, con el propósito de recordar el profesionalismo que lleva implícito el abordaje de la agonía y la muerte en nuestro quehacer diario, pero tamb...
Due to the coupled situation of facing and managing a death which constitute a critical moment in someone else's life, one as a student and the other as faculty, both individuals wish to share this reflection with the purpose of reminding those involved, of the need for professionalism that is implicit in facing death as part of our daily work, but...
Se presenta una revisión de los protocolos de manejo para las entidades consideradas una emergencia psiquiátrica, apoyada en la medicina basada en la evidencia, enfocándola hacia las posibilidades reales de manejo por un médico general en niveles locales de atención.
A four tasks-based program was designed, founded in the Cognitive Behavioral Model of Stress Inoculation and intervention on anticipatory grief. The program was applied to three bad prognosis patients and their families from the Oncology Service at Hospital de la Misericordia, in Bogota. Risk and protection factors and responses related to the prog...
The word �cancer� associates to a hopeless illness, although many cases are curable. Nobody escapes from pain, that reports ourselves that something is wrong in our body. With a �philosophic pragmatism� style that offer him his more than 40 years of professional exercise, doctor Fernández del Castillo analyzes the role of pain and suffering in the ...
This autoethnographic story shows the process of tending the graves of family members. In the past, the author reluctantly accompanied her mother on her visits to the family cemetery. Once there, she took on the role of distant observer as her mother took care of the family cemetery plots. When her mother becomes disabled, the author begins to arra...
Western science, influenced by jewish and catholic traditions- put aside death and only considered it as the death of the physical body. The soul or human spirit was put aside and was only considered by western philosophy and religion. The discipline known today as “Palliative Care” has produced valuable research and has developed ways of treating ...
