PROGRESSION OF AN ILLNESS - THE LIFE-COURSE OF AIDS

HIV Illness is accompanied by a psychological course determined by the disease progression. The Life Course of HIV Illness has two phases wh ich consist of eight basic Task-States and eight general themes which traverse these task-states. The paper focuses on a detailed descriptio n of phase one-Living with the Illness. The concepts are illustrated w ith case material. The overall goal of this paper is to introduce the broad notion of the Life Course of being in the HIV spectrum and its p sychotherapeutic implications.