Hasta llegar, la vida. Arte-terapia y cáncer en fase terminal

Resumen

This paper defends an integral medicine to approach the suffering of terminal states, where the palliative team must be multidisciplinary. In this team, the art therapist is qualifi ed to take charge of the emotional aspects of the terminal patient, to relieve the suffering and to improve the quality of life of the patient and his relatives, in an approach of here/now. But a hanging task in art therapy is the checking and evaluation of its efficiency. With this aim we are developing a study nowadays in the Unit of Care Palliative of the University Hospital Sant-Pau, Barcelona, subsidized by the Spanish Society of Medical Oncology.