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The Challenge of Intimacy in a Care Institution
Issue 19 : May, 2020
ISBN : 9782749266909
Intimacy and institution do not match very well. Throughout history, it is the disengagement from the social and family institution which made it possible for intimacy to emerge. Moreover, the institution often relies, for its proper functioning, on the social control of individual intimacy. Care and medico-social institutions have, for their part, to face the challenge of reconciling what might seem irreconcilable : penetrate the intimacy of the bodies and minds in order to take care, while trying to preserve the intimate which constitutes the subject’s freedom and dignity. How can we think working in these places of cohabitation where the barrier between intimate space and exteriority is continuously questioned, where breaking in threatens as much as exposure, where secrets are revealed for more or less useful purposes? The challenge for institutions is to avoid the pitfalls of incestuous confusion or of phobic avoidance, in order to maintain a protective and structuring shield. This issue explores how and how far these questions concern patients as well as their caregivers.
Authors
Avec la participation de : Alain Braconnier, André Carel, Rosa Caron, Amélie de Cazanove, Bernard Chervet, Jeanne Duclos, Catherine Dupuis-Gauthier, Catherine Fourques, Virginie Jacob Alby, Alain Lemosof, Fabrice Leroy, Safia Metidji, Agnès Meyrieu, Jessica Ozenne, Charlotte Perrin-Costantino, Hélène Riazuelo, Françoise Simonet-Tenant, Benoît Verdon.
Table of contents
Editorial
Patrick de Saint-Jacob
INTRODUCING TH THOUGHT
1. « Introduction », Charlotte Perrin-Costantino
2. « For a Historical Approach of Intimacy», Françoise Simonet-Tenant
INTIMACY ON THE INSTITUTIONAL STAGE
3. « Secret Intimacy, Discreet Private and Transparent Public. A Topic at the test of Care Institutions», André Carel
4. « Intimacy in Hospital. Calling for a Form of Chiaroscuro », Hélène Riazuelo
5. « Forms and Figures of Intimacy in Perinatal Care Institutions », Virginie Jacob Alby
6. « The Inner at Work. The Group: A Place to think the Individual Unconscious Commitment in Professional Practice », Agnès Meyrieu
A PLACE FOR THE INTIMATE
7. « Singular and Collective Intimacies intertwinned », Bernard Chervet
8. « A Room of one’s own – The Sites of the Intimate in Adolescence°», Amélie de Cazanove
9. « The Refuge of the intimate. From the “maddening object “ to the “Soothing Object”°», Alain Braconnier
10. « Restoring Psychic Intimacy, Revealing one’s Symptoms in the health and medico-social sectors », Jessica Ozenne
11. « On the Edge of Intimacy within a fragmented Family », Safia Metidji, Jeanne Duclos, Rosa Caron, Catherine Dupuis-Gauthier, Fabrice Leroy
TOWARDS AN ETHICS OF THE INTIMATE
12. « Unconscious Intimacy and Professional Ethics, Alain Lemosof
13. « In Complete Intimacy. Ethical Considerations on the Patient-Psychologist Relationship in long term Care Institutions », Catherine Fourques
14. « Patients intimacy put the test by exchanges within the team : psychological assessment and therapy », Charlotte Perrin-Costantino, Benoît Verdon
Readings….
See also
The symptom : a ally?
The insolence of the symptom
Intimacy unveiled, intimate to be regained
The Challenge of Intimacy in a Care Institution
Should we be Afraid of Care Institutions?
Fear figures in the institution
Everyday Life in institutions : alienation or freedom?
« Everyday Life : Institutional Care’s True Stake ? »
Repetition’s Functions
Repetition : from Resistance to Change ?
Mediations : a therapeutic device ?
Mediations, bonding and symbolization
The act : short circuit or revival ?
Acting Out : Discharge or Object Intent?
Dependency : from Fusion to Confusion
Dependency with an End, Dependency without End
Orality Orders and Disorders at Different Times of Life
From Trauma to Possible Therapeutic Paths
From Loss to Renunciation
The Challenges of Multidisciplinarity
From Intrusion to Trauma
Containers and Psychic Care