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Self-Deception in Terminal Patients: Belief System at Stake

A substantial minority of patients with terminal illness hold unrealistically hopeful beliefs about the severity of their disease or the nature of its treatment, considering therapy as curative rather than palliative. We propose that this attitude may be understood as self-deception, following the c...

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Autores principales: Echarte, Luis E., Bernacer, Javier, Larrivee, Denis, Oron, J. V., Grijalba-Uche, Miguel
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4746311/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26903921
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00117