An Emotional Life‐history Pattern Associated With Neoplastic Disease*

LeShan, Lawrence

doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.1966.tb45427.x

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“…Se han descrito cientos de casos en donde la IE se aplica a problemas de salud: por ejemplo, en algunos hospitales han desarrollado un instructivo programa prequirúrgico para pacientes, que los ayuda a aliviar los miedos y a abordar las molestias enseñándoles técnicas de relajación, respondiendo a sus preocupaciones e informándo-les varios días antes de la operación exactamente qué les ocurrirá durante la recuperación. El resultado es que los pacientes se recuperan de la cirugía dos o tres días más pronto 9 . Es evidente que existe una estrecha relación entre el estado de ánimo y la evolución de la enfermedad, y el saber manejar situaciones con gran carga afectiva podría representar la diferencia entre la vida y la muerte.…”

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Estudio del coeficiente emocional en estudiantes de medicina

Prieto-Rincón

Inciarte-Mundo

Rincón-Prieto

et al. 2008

Rev. chil. neuro-psiquiatr.

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Estudio del coeficiente emocional en estudiantes de medicina

Prieto-Rincón

Inciarte-Mundo

Rincón-Prieto

et al. 2008

Rev. chil. neuro-psiquiatr.

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“…There is also no physiological mechanism to account for an increase in the incidence of or mortality from cancer after stressful events has yet to be specified in detail [8]. Loss of an important emotional relationship has been identified in several studies as an event with a high risk of subsequent illness [20][21][22]. Psychological stress activates the nervous system and the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis, leading to release of hormones such as glucocorticoids and norepinephrine.…”

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What’s New Among Cancer Etiology Horizon?

Basu¹

2018

Cancer Causing Substances

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The commonest saying goes as "cancer has no answer," we have really come a long way in that aspect. From being able to detect and diagnose the disease early, effective treatment modalities, improvement in therapeutic outcome and even effective palliative measures. The research focus emphasized upon detecting preventable risk factors. Tobacco a Global culprit is often discussed as the most important risk factor for cancer. Modern day life and with its so-called stress measures are the ones often been blamed without a concrete scientific evidences. Psychological makeup of a person, emotional stress and cellular phones are intricately associated with a modern lifestyle. In this chapter we would be focusing upon the causal relationship between these factors and malignancy with available scientific literature. At the end we would present possible measures to avoid them and any future research areas to be looked upon.

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“…The earliest studies aimed at testing these hypotheses empirically on neoplastic subjects were carried out by Le Shan [7,8], who identified a connection between personality traits-namely the inability to express hostile feelings-and the development of neoplasia. These studies showed that the life of a neoplastic patient seems to be characterised by the loss of an important affective relationship, which seems to precede the onset of the disease [9] and to produce an intense emotional experience. These studies opened up a new research field focused on the role that emotional factors can play in the genesis and development of a neoplasia.…”

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The Body of Libido and The Imploded Organ-Some Reflections on the Economy (and on the Topography) of Libido on People Affected by Cancer

Cotrufo

Galiani²

2014

J Psychol Psychother

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We found, in an empirical study on 53 people affected by cancer, of both sexes, that, according to previous researches, they take on a peculiar defensive style. The defensive styles differences between cancer patients and the comparison group resulted, by the mean of State Trait Anger Expression Inventory (STAXI) and Defense Mechanism Inventory (DMI), statistically significant. The cancer patients resulted to be "controlling-introverted". These results can be considered an additional evidence of a tie, till obscure, between the somatic disease, even in its extreme form, and the subjective psychodynamic organisation.Such evidences are often the result of a research activity referred to traditional studies leading to the different meanings of "psychosomatics". As we can see from the epistolary relation between Freud and Groddeck and the latter and Ferenczi, this tradition crossed lot of times the path of psychoanalysis. In some cases, such crosses seem to produce a deviation, evident in the frequent simplification of the potential senses of the same crosses.We think with no doubt that the link body-mind can be studied with advantage starting from the same idea of the unconscious presented by Freud in the famous letter to Groddeck (1917) as the possible "missing link" between the physical and the psychical. However, we think that a study starting from such a point should not limit itself to seeing in the unconscious collocation of the link an almost nominalistic entity, pushing the knowledge towards the "more" implied in the unconscious nature of the link.Starting from those empirical data we propose a representation of the elements in transit on the bridge linking the mind to the body affected by cancer. We want to consider the relationship between the self-conservative body and the libidinal body in the light of a "critic" to the anaclisis (Anlehnung) theory. the one hand, they appear as carriers of a meaning, on the other they are viewed mostly as the result of a given psychic structure, whose main effect is the disgregation of the meaning-producing psychic processes.

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An Emotional Life‐history Pattern Associated With Neoplastic Disease*

Cited by 138 publications

References 20 publications

Estudio del coeficiente emocional en estudiantes de medicina

Estudio del coeficiente emocional en estudiantes de medicina

What’s New Among Cancer Etiology Horizon?

The Body of Libido and The Imploded Organ-Some Reflections on the Economy (and on the Topography) of Libido on People Affected by Cancer

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