DEMORALIZATION SYNDROME - A Conceptualization
Journal Title: The Odisha Journal of Psychiatry - Year 2009, Vol 16, Issue 1
Abstract
Demoralization is experienced as a persistent inability to cope, together with associated feelings of helplessness, hopelessness, meaninglessness, subjective incompetence and diminished self-esteem. Scientific were reviewed and conclude summarising the available literatures pertaining to demoralization syndrome in psychiatry.
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Surjeet Sahoo, P. K. Mohapatra
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