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The role of trauma in cancer: practical applications. Extracts from case studies on the clinical psychology of cancer Volume 5, issue 3, May-June 2019

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PhD, Doctor in clinical psychology and psychopathology
Former director of teaching of psychopathology at University Paris 7
Expert at court & international criminal court
Medical Oncology Unit, Group Pitié-Salpêtrière-Charles Foix
47-83, boulevard de l’Hôpital 75013 Paris
France
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Case n̊1 Bénédicte was a 40-year-old woman who came to see me for consultation, and said “I’ve been sent to see you, I cracked up a little during my last consultation with the oncologist, I have breast cancer, I’ve been told it's nothing serious. I’m lucky, I only have radiotherapy”. This young woman looked shy and reserved. She seemed as frail on the outside as fragile inside. Her voice was almost inaudible and she barely looked at me when she spoke, [...]

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