Lutto anticipatorio e relazione medico-paziente: l'adattamentoi alla notizia tra solitudine e abbandono

The present article introduces the second part of a search on relatives of terminal patient that are hospitalized in a hospice whose medical équipe adopts the palliative approach of the Medical Humanities. The research considers the relatives experience of terminal patients and their representazion of the relationship with the doctor. In order to the investigation on the evolution of the anticipatory mourning, that, as emerged in the first part of the research, appears precociously in the family relationships, it has been considered the representations of the different passages of the illness and the correlated emotions.