文摘
A study of the feeling of healing after a cancer treated before 15 years of age was conducted, through semidirective talks with a psychologist, amongst 25 medically cured young people aged of 18 to 31 years, selected during a follow-up consultation made by the same referent pediatric oncologist, 8 to 20 years post-diagnosis. The fore patients recurrently underlined unerasable footsteps of cancer trauma, which remain incompletely elaborated: the suddenness of disease and its existential upheaval (separation from their usual familiar world and learning ends). The feeling of the seriousness of the situation most often linked to tumour pains and agressive diagnostic or therapeutic procedures and reflected by the eyes and behaviour of their close relatives. The omnipresent loneliness at hospital, amongst sibship, as well as peers. In spite of the comforting parents-presence and of the alleviating medical information, which were the two last hopes they reminded, the concept of repressed death emerges from almost all talks. These talks suggest the protracted coexistence amongst the fore-patients of three feelings of healing: considered thanks to the medical affirmation as potential, felt through the fear of disease recurrences and sequelae as doubtful, the healing seems for them most of all sustainably unfinished, notably characterized by the difficulty to come out from the statute of precarious child and to formulate a parental project.