[The discourses of the feeling of being oneself]. / Les discours du sentiment d'être soi.

Forms of discourse and practices of caregivers can help a patient who experiences affects of "loss of self". Four effective discourses can be distinguished: "containing" discourse, "empathic-sympathetic" discourse, "image" discourse and "project" discourse. For the first three to restore a person's ability to act in the world, they must be coupled with the fourth.