par Dussart, Harmony ;Lambotte, Isabelle ;Van Pevenage, Claire ;Appelboom, Jocelyne
Référence Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, 56, 7, page (468-472)
Publication Publié, 2008-11
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : Cardiac surgery is an experience which affects the family as a whole. The announcement of malformation, the hospitalization, the anguish of the operation, the surgery, the fantasy associated to the heart, the heaviness of the care, the fear of death and the pain are many elements which mark the personal and family history. They impact everyone in a different way, according to its own psychic organization, its means of defence and its personal experiences. Based on their clinical experiments and the literature, the authors suggest a reflection starting from a clinical work completed with siblings of child heart surgery patients. Often anxious and impregnated of parental anguishes, the brothers and sisters must face the fact and make themselves a place in the family turmoil, by accepting relational modifications and compromises. Often jealous of the parental love to the rival who gets more attention and indulgence, but also feeling guilty, the brothers and sisters are at the risk of developing difficulties of adaptation. This work falls within the context of the prevention of behavioral disorders and psychoaffective of the siblings of child heart surgery patients. © 2008 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.