Issue 7 : April, 2014
ISBN : 9782749240572
Dependency, if imposed at birth with the infant’s neotony, is also a necessary process of development. This state is just as much somatic as it is psychological, and lasts as long as the object cannot be interiorized by a mature Ego, as long as the child has to have it with him instead of within… It is this internalization process which fails for those whom suffer from addictions or from a borderline personality. Dependencies then present themselves as the clinic of exteriorization: without a functional object internalization, without transitionality, the individual is forced into an over-dependency to exterior objects, searching around what is absent within. The dependent patient consumes, without limit, from the outside because he is incapable of preserving what is inside. What function does dependency or addiction cover? What has been previously banished so that a fertile independency could not be instituted? How can the Institution open the way to this necessary transitionality? This object internalization process can sometimes be undermined at certain specific times in life, such as adolescence or senescence: the dependency matter is then brutally re-actualized within the embrittlement of the previously functional narcissistic foundations. How do institutions accompany this journey?
Garance BELAMICH, Valérie BLANC, Linda COMBAZ, Charlotte COSTANTINO, Patrick DE SAINT-JACOB, Catherine DUCARRE, Vincent ESTELLON, Laurence EXERTIER, Pierre GAUDRIAULT, Patrice HUERRE, Éva LEBIHAN, Serge LESOURD, Pascal MENECIER, Sylvain MISSONNIER, Louis PLOTON, Maud SERGENT, Benoit VERDON
Editorial. P de Saint Jacob
Introduction Dependency with an End or Dependency without End? How to Separate? C. Costantino
Clinical Crossroads
At the Sources of Dependency: Eternal Return of the Beginnings. S. Missonnier
Alcohol as Pseudo Transitional Object A Journey through Non Temperated Environment. C. Ducarre
Alcohol Abstinence, Boredom and Dependency. V. Blanc, P. Gaudriault
Smoking, between Auto-erotism and Breathing. L. Exertier
Therapeutic Changes
From a Restraining Setting to a Supporting Mind: the Use of Psychotherapy in Prison. M. Sergent
The Video Game, a Care Object? “Cesar” or the Passage from Video Games to Team Games. E. Le Bihan
Questions around Virtual Dependency. P. Huerre, G.Belamich
Is there a Logic to Addiction? L. Combaz
Intersecting Reflections
From Sexual Dependencies to Addictive Sexuality. V. Estellon
Stepping away from Dependency: an Adolescent Matter. S. Lesourd
Removing Oneself from Dependency? Aging within the Harshness of the Ideals. B. Verdon
Alcohol, Drugs, Activities of Daily Living: Variability of Dependency Objects in Nursing Homes. P. Menecier, L. Ploton