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To work in a hospital is to believe in poetry, to grasp with wonder all the details that tie each person to an existence. However far-fetched they may be, they also contribute to enriching our belief in a world that can always be rewritten beyond the determinisms that would claim to assign tragedy.
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When we work with children and teenagers, we are always open to their singular questions about their subjective foundations and their future. Questions of identity are increasingly present at the heart of our fast-paced modern world. Two clinical extracts from psychotherapies show that this quest for identity is dealt with on a case-by-case basis, while respecting each individual's temporality.
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Psychology, Adolescent , Psychotherapy , Child , Humans , AdolescentABSTRACT
What has become of the hysterics of yesteryear? Despite the evolution of nosographic categories, their symptoms cannot be reduced to this, and they invite all clinicians to listen to the power of their words to express the effects of the unconscious. Disappointed lovers, worshippers of knowledge, they challenge those who would try to squeeze them into overly restrictive diagnostic boxes, to silence their truth. For they embody in their tribulations the effects of language on the being, a metonymy that they wear on their bodies. Their posture invites us to listen to the singularity of each case by highlighting the dignity of the symptom.
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Hysteria , Psychoanalysis , HumansABSTRACT
Teenagers sometimes show us, in quite dramatic fashion, the upheavals they face as they embark on the difficult journey towards adulthood. Removed from parental directions and ideals, they need to follow their own subjective compass, in a social relationship where anxiety is ever present. Far from being indifferent to the world, they offer a lucid insight into its flaws and false pretences, in a distraught search for meaning. In this state of vulnerability and internal disarray, they can be exposed to the risk of fanaticism and deadly beliefs which promise a resolution to the chaos of their existence. The use of screens as a place to hide behind, segregational communities, toxic pathways, like an artificial veil on the world, are all dangerous solutions to which the teenager may turn.
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Anxiety/psychology , Psychology, Adolescent , Adaptation, Psychological , Adolescent , HumansABSTRACT
Patients with psychosis speak of an uneasy relationship with their body. Between feelings of too little and too much, for them it is a matter of trying to suture an image which is not always unified, a body which they are not always sure they have. The attentive clinician will attempt to support the solutions of each psychotic patient to maintain their body, beyond the death drive which pushes them to tear it apart.
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Body Image , Mind-Body Relations, Metaphysical , Nonverbal Communication , Nurse-Patient Relations , Psychotic Disorders/nursing , Psychotic Disorders/psychology , Self Mutilation/nursing , Self Mutilation/psychology , Delusions/nursing , Delusions/psychology , Humans , Object Attachment , Psychiatric Nursing , ShameABSTRACT
Psychotic symptoms of the type elementary phenomena and hallucinations can be pacified thanks to an individualised response. Teamwork is essential for fighting against the feeling of therapeutic deadlock. This article presents the therapeutic effects of the institutional care of a child with psychosis within a day hospital.
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Defense Mechanisms , Psychiatric Nursing , Psychotherapy , Psychotic Disorders/nursing , Psychotic Disorders/psychology , Adolescent , Child , Communication , Day Care, Medical , Follow-Up Studies , Hallucinations/nursing , Hallucinations/psychology , Humans , Male , WritingABSTRACT
When they receive patients in their treatment centre, clinicians witness symptoms which are sometimes very closely related to the inclusion within hypermodernity of hyperbole and instantaneousness. A study of the question of contemporary violence through an analytical explanation of the relationship between the subject and the object.
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Object Attachment , Psychiatric Nursing , Psychoanalytic Interpretation , Social Change , Violence/psychology , Adolescent , Adult , Female , France , Humans , Infant , Life Style , Male , Pleasure , Social Media , Video Games , Voyeurism/psychologyABSTRACT
Faced with a child's psychosis--and its occurrences--the psychologist must remain humble. Team work will help to modify the massive transference which sometimes binds the psychologist to the psychotic subject (erotomania or persecution).
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Anxiety Disorders/nursing , Anxiety Disorders/psychology , Cooperative Behavior , Delusions/nursing , Delusions/psychology , Interdisciplinary Communication , Patient Care Team , Psychoanalytic Therapy , Psychotic Disorders/nursing , Psychotic Disorders/psychology , Transference, Psychology , Child , Encopresis/nursing , Encopresis/psychology , Feeding and Eating Disorders/nursing , Feeding and Eating Disorders/psychology , Humans , Male , Object Attachment , Psychoanalytic TheoryABSTRACT
It is important that the "refuge" which the institution often constitutes in patients' eyes does not allow caregivers to forget to question their practice. In these times where fast "therapies" are available, we must not distance ourselves from the precepts of psycho-analytical work and leave the subject the time to develop.
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Nurse-Patient Relations , Psychiatric Nursing , Psychoanalytic Therapy , Communication , Humans , Length of Stay , Patient Acceptance of Health Care/psychology , Philosophy, Nursing , Psychoanalytic Therapy/methods , Psychotherapy, GroupABSTRACT
Lola experiences herself as "too beautiful" and attemps to invest a body that she ignores, the meaning of which she gauges only through the adornment. In her quest of men that might teach her being as a woman, this teenager ends up loosing herself. Lola acts "as if" in placing herself in the posture of object of the mother or object of men.
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Gender Identity , Identity Crisis , Personality Disorders/nursing , Psychotherapy , Self Concept , Adolescent , Body Image , Female , Humans , Moral Development , Mother-Child Relations , Object Attachment , Personality Assessment , Personality Disorders/psychology , Sexual BehaviorABSTRACT
The hypothesis of Münchhausen's syndrome arises through a clinical situation. The patient is unable to consider the question of "being a mother". The child takes the place of a real, unbearable object, which she evacuates or which can disappear. This maternal suffering requires psychotherapeutic care.
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Mothers/psychology , Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/psychology , Child, Preschool , Female , Humans , Male , Mother-Child Relations , Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/diagnosis , Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy/therapy , Object Attachment , Psychoanalytic Interpretation , Psychological Theory , PsychotherapyABSTRACT
Every clinical encounter is the occasion for new questions and the questioning of a practice which is neither linear or uniform. With Madame K., love and all its variations can sometimes be a way of entering the psychosis. Through its aspect of impossibility, love can therefore crystallise a delusion.
