2021
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare9040455
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The Actualization of the Transplantation Complex on the Axis of Psychosomatic Totality—Results of a Qualitative Study

Abstract: Although transplantation medicine is not new, there is a clinically justified gap in the existing literature with respect to the psychological processing of lung transplants. The present study aims to examine whether lung transplantation leads to an actualization of psychological, e.g., oral-sadistic fantasies. Following a qualitative approach, 38 lung transplant patients were interviewed three times within the first six months after transplantation. Data analysis focused on identifying unconscious and conscio… Show more

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“…All patients gave their written consent to participate in the study and to have the anonymous results published. Previous results were published by Seiler et al (2015Seiler et al ( , 2016, Goetzmann et al (2018Goetzmann et al ( , 2019 and Eichenlaub et al (2021).…”
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confidence: 92%
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“…All patients gave their written consent to participate in the study and to have the anonymous results published. Previous results were published by Seiler et al (2015Seiler et al ( , 2016, Goetzmann et al (2018Goetzmann et al ( , 2019 and Eichenlaub et al (2021).…”
Section: Acknowledgementsmentioning
confidence: 92%
“…I dreamed that my caregiver came into my room and tore out my central venous catheter’. The motifs or aspects of an actualization of the transplantation complex can be summarized as follows (Goetzmann et al ., 2019; Eichenlaub et al ., 2021): The donor is killed. The body is broken open. Objects penetrate into the body/are devoured (incorporation). The donor is the recipient (identification). The donor is a part of the recipient's internal world. The (new) object is a member of the family of organs that can be expelled. …”
Section: The Transplantation Complexmentioning
confidence: 99%
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