[Psychological aspects of burns]

Pathol Biol (Paris). 2002 Mar;50(2):134-6. doi: 10.1016/s0369-8114(01)00276-0.
[Article in French]

Abstract

Destroying the skin, the burn threatens the limits between the self and others. It induces a breakdown in the life which outcome deals with the history of every patient and his psychic structures. But in such a situation, the medical teams have to set up the specific support required by these patients. Through their symptoms the burned patients try to express a deep psychic suffering which needs to be listened to.

Publication types

  • English Abstract
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Burns / psychology*
  • Burns / rehabilitation
  • Humans
  • Mental Disorders / etiology
  • Mental Disorders / therapy