L’acrobatica del morire

Abstract

This article aims at summing up the reflections of a small group of psychologists who work in the domain of palliative treatment. The theory and methodology supporting it are borrowed by a group analysis approach; purpose of the group is a research based on the workers’ experience elaboration, which aims at finding out both the specificities of the work apparatus with the people accompanied to the conclusion of their lives, and the main thematic areas of the relationship between health care team, patients and families. The work we present aims at introducing the most meaningful themes emerged during group meetings: first of all some service criticalities examined in the area of terminal health care and the workers’ possible saturation and psycho-social discomfort quotas, generating in some cases a common sense of professional precariousness.