Organ Loss, Grieving and Itching
- 30 September 1980
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Psychiatric Association Publishing in American Journal of Psychotherapy
- Vol. 34 (4) , 523-533
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.psychotherapy.1980.34.4.523
Abstract
This article offers a review of our understanding of the body image, the attack on it by surgical procedures, and the role of itching and scratching in the attempt to reconstruct a new and modified body image after physical alteration by organ loss has been effected.This publication has 0 references indexed in Scilit: