Table 1.

Injured Self's features and their consequences for mental health and health management.

	The Injured Self's features	Consequences	Therapeutic aims
Adherence	See themselves only as patients without autonomy	- Rejection of oncological treatments; - Accept treatments passively	Positive adherence to treatments as personal choice
Future	Perception of hopelessness and absence of coping resources	- Lack of dreams and future projects	Start to think to the future in terms of new possibilities and challenges
Relations	Fear of not being always self-sufficient	- Stress the desire to show our healthy physical and psychological status in front of the others	Knowing one's own limits; being autonomous while recognizing to need care at the same time
Emotions	Anxiety, depression, and distress	- Poor Quality of Life; - Difficulties in emotion regulation	Balance among positive and negative emotions by introspection with awareness for inner feelings
Self	Experience of self-fragmentation	- Difficulties in the integration of the Injured Self into the overall Self	Connect and integrate this new self-representation; stress its positive outcomes