ターミナルケアに携わる家族の精神身体症状

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Among the patients who visited our department during the period from January, 1986 to December, 1991,9 patients, who had psychosomatic symptoms in the process of being involved in the terminal care for the family members, have been investigated. The exacervation of original symptoms was found in the patients who had a past history of psychiatric illness and who had been under treatment in our department. Compared with depressive patients, neurotic patients tended to experience their symptoms at an earlier stage after they were notified that their family members would be incurable. The clinical picture during the terminal care was an anxiety-depression mixed state presenting autonomic nervous symptoms in both depressives and neurotics. While they were deteriorating among few patients immediately after that, the psychosomatic symptoms were exacervated among many patients transiently about 2 months after their family member's death.
日本心身医学会の論文
1994-12-01