Abstract:The diiculty of making decisions in end of life is the subject of these relections through two clinical cases. We considered the question of palliative sedation for existential distress through a phenomenological approach, focusing the relationship between a patient's clinical history and the reactions of the care team to the existential distress of the patients. We chose to introduce a concept, dynamic projective identiications, which is a powerful mechanism for communication between human beings. The hypothe… Show more
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