UKRAINS'KYI VISNYK PSYKHONEVROLOHII

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ORGAN LOSS AS A TRIGGER OF IDENTITY CRISIS IN WOMEN WITH MALIGNANT TUMORS OF THE REPRODUCTIVE SYSTEM (literature review)

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This scientific work is devoted to highlighting the current problem of modern psychiatry and medical psychology — the identity crisis and associated psycho-emotional disorders that arise as a result of organectomy operations in women with oncogynecological diseases. Scientific works of Ukrainian and foreign scientists devoted to the study of such aspects of the identity crisis as the causes and mechanisms of its occurrence, variations of its manifestations, associated psychopathological symptoms and methods of overcoming it are consistently reviewed.

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