Hospitals are sacred spaces. They are places where life begins, changes, and sometimes ends. In these moments, people are not only navigating the physical realities of illness and injury, but they are also experiencing profound emotional, psychological, and spiritual shifts. It is here, in this deeply human space, that psychologists play a powerful role. Healing […]
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Phantom limb pains occur post amputation, where patients experience sensations, such as aching, burning, itching, numbness, pinching, tingling, stabbing, throbbing, and changing temperatures in a limb that does not exist. This may seem unusual, to feel a pain in an area of the body that does not exist anymore, leading to feelings of confusion, embarrassment,
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Involuntary muscle spasms are a regular experience of those who have experienced spinal cord injuries. These can result in interrupted sleep, discomfort and pain, along with possible injuries. This is without mentioning or taking into account the impact that this can have on the individual with regards to feeling self-conscious. These occur as a result
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According to the World Health Organisation, rehabilitation is defined as the use of all means aimed at reducing the impact of disabling and handicapping conditions and enabling disabled people to achieve optimal social integration. Therefore, patients are treated by a multi-disciplinary health care team, including psychologists. For many patients, medical rehabilitation brings about major adjustment,
Psychotherapy When people seek psychotherapy, they often expect the process to alter the actual problem (that occurs in the world), however, problems in life are not so straightforward. Psychotherapy involves the activity of a therapist’s attempt, to provide new interpersonal experience for another human being. Specifically, experiences obtained in psychotherapy, in which the sessions for
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