Discussion of Dr. Kächele's paper “The impact of transplantation on body experiences and body concept: Psychoanalytic dimensions in our understanding”

The discussant stresses some psychodynamic aspects regarding the patients presented in Dr. Kächele's paper and uses the case of Loretta, a patient of his in long-term psychotherapy with chronic renal insufficiency, to demonstrate some problems that emerge in the treatment of transplantation patients.