Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
3333261 Revue d'Oncologie Hématologie Pédiatrique 2013 7 Pages PDF
Abstract
How can an adult talk about cancer when he was treated as a young child and that memories are missing? What can he build? What can he tell? How important are visual memories, memories of the body, dreams, medical follow- ups? It seems that the absence of memories has a protective effect on the young adults met, who attribute the psychological suffering to their parents. They say they are unconcerned as if the story belonged to someone else. They admit they need to be told about what happened to them, but they remain ambivalent: do they need a medical report, or do they want to hear a story from their parents? Has early hospitalization made them a hero, or a young adult who is afraid of being abandoned?
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