The Body Experience and Suffering among Senior Women with Incurable Cancer
When senior women have incurable cancer, their body goes through changes that can cause much suffering. The objective of this qualitative research in humanistic psychology is to better understand how the suffering experienced by senior women with incurable cancer is linked to their body experience. It is based on an analysis of the conceptual categories that emerged from 19 semi-structured interviews realized with 10 older women with incurable cancer. The results demonstrate that the transformations of their image, the changes in abilities, the uncertainty and stories of cancer are linked to suffering and must be addressed by practitioners and researchers.