KHARON

Thanatology Review

Electronic Journal

Content

Volume 23

Number 2 · 2019

Original article


DR. ÉVA ZSÁK
DR. ÉVA ZSÁK

PhD társadalomkutató

zse1976@gmail.com

DR. KATALIN HEGEDŰS
DR. KATALIN HEGEDŰS

PhD habil. egyetemi docens, mentálhigiénés szakember, hospice- és gyásztanácsadó

hegedus.katalin@semmelweis.hu

Experiences of loss, grief, coping strategies of the healthcare personnel in perinatal care. A review of literature

Abstract · Perinatal losses tend to become a phenomenon of complicated grief, a burden for the parents, for their families and for the helping professionals, yet it is a little studied topic. Our aim is to systematically review the literature concerning the grief experienced by the health care staff, caused by perinatal loss to present an overall picture of the international and national attitudes and existing solutions. The importance and complexity of the problem need greater attention, the existence of active and up-to-date programmes on all professional levels.

 EDINA TOMÁN
EDINA TOMÁN

pszichológus

toman.edina@gmail.com

Grief reactions and difficulties among psychiatric patients

Abstract · From birth onwards our life is full of changes. At times, change brings loss and loss begets grief. The experience of loss varies among individuals, as does bereavement. Implied therein is not only the difference between normal and complicated grief reactions, but also the distinctive difficulties of psychiatric patients in dealing with loss. The present study offers a review of the sparse literature concerning the unique characteristics of mourning and grief among psychiatric patients.

 LUCA HODÁSZ
LUCA HODÁSZ

pszichológus, családterapeuta

hodaszluca@gmail.com

DR. KRISZTINA TÓTH
DR. KRISZTINA TÓTH

osztályvezető főorvos, palliatív orvos

ktkrisztinatoth@gmail.com

The practice of creating a living will, the advance directive on refusing medical treatments

Abstract · The Act CLIV of 1997 on Health care and Statute 117/1998 (VI.16.) grants patients in Hungary the autonomy to decide what interventions to accept and what to refuse. A person with self determination may draw up a personal directive in advance for a possible, future incapacitated condition in the form of a legal document to refuse certain medical treatments. This document, also known as a living will, may ensure that the requests of patients with advanced, progressive chronic diseases are pursued. A thorough medical consultation is suggested when drawing up a living will. A best practice of this consultation process is presented in the article, based on the authors' exprience at the Hospice-Palliative Department of the National Korányi Pulmonology Institute.

 ÁKOS NÉMETH
ÁKOS NÉMETH

irodalomtörténész (PhD)

nemeth.akos@hotmail.hu

Illness and Death as Literary Experience by Mihály Babits

Abstract · The oeuvre of the great Hungarian poet and novelist, Mihály Babits (1883-1941) was influenced by the search for the sense of death and transience. This was partly due to his philosophical figure and due to his illnesses, all these reminding him to the end of human life. In my essay, I deal with his way of thinking about death, with regard to its changing representation captured in some of his characteristic literary works.