ケアにおける身体性－看護ケアにおける身体性が患者と看護師に与える心理的影響－

Abstract

Corporeality in caring is instrumental in making the body of a caring person into a tool, since it allows this person to be united, physically and mentally, with whomever is in his or her care. The corporeality conveys its message through physical work. The caretaker and the person receiving care are influenced physically and mentally through the instrumentality of the body, the ambiguous of subject and object, undivided relation of body and mind, and verbal expressions. In this report, I show my own counseling cases of inner conflict in nurses, administering care, as clinical vignettes. Physical care makes the caretaker experience his or her own existence by helping others, but it may lead to a deep unconscious projection onto a patient. It is worrisome that corporeality in care is fading in medical site becomes more computerized, automated, and intellectual, even when it is important to determine the physical signs of the patient.