Nicht-enden-wollender Schmerz: Personzentriertes Verstehen im interdisziplinären Palliative Care Team

Abstract

Never-ending pain. Responding personcentred and interdisciplinarity in palliative care teams. An alarming quality of pain also emerges within interpersonal human relationships. This report focuses on better care — giving conditions for severely ill or dying persons who suffer from unrelieved, overwhelming pain. My paper offers a view into the unique world of personcentred supervision. Helpers, who understand pain not only as a symptom but also as a phenomenon of intersubjectivity and an activated attachment-system, receive new opportunities to respond to their patients. Clearing their own wishes of keeping distance they become more aware of their own helplessness or powerlessness and, finally, give better support existentially threatened patients by experiencing pain and separation.