When death is a part of life. Grief work as a way of living losses in professional activity with cancer patients

Psychoanalytical psychotherapy

  • Anna V. Korovina
Keywords: oncology, destructiveness, death drive, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, grief therapy, psychosomatics, primary erogenous masochism, work of grief, primary grief

Abstract

When death is a part of life. What mental processes encourage an individual to choose the profession of an oncologist and how psychoanalytic psychotherapy can help a person in a situation of daily loss. In this article we will consider the aspects of the formation of primary grief, primary erogenous masochism, the biological component of the death drive and the connection with the structural organization of the brain, consider oncology from the point of view of psychosomatics and the theoretical foundations of grief therapy, loss living in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

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Author Biography

Anna V. Korovina

Korovina Anna V., psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist, psychologist, member of the Association of Specialists in the Field of Psychoanalytic Psychosomatics.

Published
2025-10-07
How to Cite
KorovinaA. V. (2025). When death is a part of life. Grief work as a way of living losses in professional activity with cancer patients. Journal of Clinical and Applied Psychoanalysis, 6(3), 60-75. Retrieved from https://psychoanalysis-journal.hse.ru/article/view/28559