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Containers and Psychic Care

Issue 1 : April, 2011
ISBN : 9782749213750

Before working out the meaning of entering an institution and the unconscious conflicts that dominate this frequently acute and inordinate life period, the institution needs to become the container of the acute expressions of its patients, generally in crisis, in a great psychological or somatical abandonment, by becoming a protective shield. The institution that takes over this role of welcoming and containment becomes a place where a psychological conflict can take place, in as much as it enables the psychic conflictuality to express itself in order to let the various forces present meet and be told on the institutional stage, so that a transformation process can be started. The idea of containment seems to be quite an issue in the field of institutional care. Care devices are places capable of receiving multiple expressions of various patients and insure the continuity of the institutional envelope and at the same time focus on antagonistic and conflictual movements, individual and collective, which will not stop being worked upon, tested, deforming the “membrane” of this containing envelope… Through their various clinical experiences in different care structures, the authors of this issue demonstrate the importance of this notion within institutional care and how it echoes with other notions such as differentiation, rhythm, space, time, identification, subjective appropriation, institutional holding and survival.

Authors

Morgane BILLARD - Michael BRUN - Dana CASTRO - Charlotte COSTANTINO - Pierre DELION - Stephane DEROCHE - Mathilde DU COLOMBIER - Catherine DUCARRE - Elisabeth FERREIRA - Christophe FERVEUR - Faroudja HOCINI - Clarisse JEGHERS - Francis KATCHADOURIAN - Marie KUNTZ-CONSTANTIN - Julie PLATIAU - Flora SAMBA - Audrey VAN CAEYSEELE - Catherine ZOUTE

Editorial. P de Saint Jacob

Introduction. C. Costantino

On the Threshold of Case Management

Patient Information and Coordination Group. F. Katchadourian and J. Platiau

Caring for the Psychotic : Institutional Psychopathology of Daily Life. P. Delion

Metamorphosis of Demand and Institutional Operations. Containers of Psychic Suffering at All Levels. M. Costantin-Kuntz, F. Samba, D. Castro and C. Zoute

Group Approaches

The Containing Function, Groups, and Care Institutions. M. Billard and C. Costantino

How to Contain what we do not Understand ? Therapist-Patient Meetings at Orgemont. C. Ducarre

Institutional Life

The Containing Function in a Cancer Clinic. Richness and Complexities of the Subsidiary Care Envelope. M. Du Colombier

Dementia and the Containing Function. E. Ferreira

Questions About a Borderline Case in an Institution. S. Déroche

From Mediation to Containment

Adolescence and the Passive Voice. Theme and Variations in Two Voices. Hysteria and Narcissism. F. Hocini and C. Ferveur

Therapeutic Workshop Using Clay : Creation, Destruction and Trace. M. Brun, C. Jeghers and A. Van Caeyselle.