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Volume 35, Issue 3
  • ISSN: 0263-0672
  • E-ISSN: 2157-1430

Abstract

A diagnosis of ovarian cancer has an impact on many areas of a woman’s life which define her identity and life story. Women are forced to reconsider the future ‘scenes’ of their life scripts as they deal with the loss of fertility, a challenge to plans and existential threat. This paper considers this experience within the theoretical framework of the Self-Memory System.

Alongside this theory, the author shares her use of dramatherapy tools applied to weekend residential courses run across the UK on four occasions to support women affected by ovarian cancer.

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