Issue 4 : October, 2012
ISBN : 9782749234342
From birth to death, loss, grief and renunciation are part of life and build the foundations of each individual’s identity. May it be the loss of the other, loss of oneself or in oneself, may it be an imposed or necessary grief, may it be fantasized or real, bereavement concerns the individual just like the group and every clinician is confronted daily, when encountering his patient, to this question of loss.
Bereavement counseling is more or less facilitated or obstructed according to the echo of the experience of loss in each individual, according to one’s story or psychic functioning. Therefore, form sadness to intense pain, from desperate grip on a lost object to potential renunciation, overcoming this hardship can be declined in various matters and shows multiple clinical shapes and forms.
But loss and grief also carries within mutative and fertile movements: they can deliver a dynamic of changes, separating the individual from mortifying repetitions. Therapeutic pathways such as those offered by a care institution may be an opportunity to redevelop processes towards new investments.
Julien BARUTEAU - Garance BELAMICH - Thomas CASCALES - Vincent CHARAZAC - Charlotte COSTANTINO - Séverine DELIEUTRAZ - Stéphane DEROCHE - Nathalie DURIEZ - Élisabeth FERREIRA - Nadège KAFOA - Juan-David NASIO - Romain PAGER - Evgenia PAPATHANASIOU - Anaïs RESTIVO-MARTIN - Vanessa ROUMILHAC - Anastasia TOLIOU - Philippe ZAWIEJA
Editorial. P de Saint Jacob
Introduction. C. Costantino
Clinical Crossroads
From a Weaker Stimulus Barrier of the Psychological Envelope to a Stronger Home Envelope: A Home-Care Case Study. R. Pager
Grieving a Diagnosis: An Unstable Identity. T. Cascales and J. Baruteau
Therapeutic Changes
“I Came to Tell You I’m Leaving”: A Photolangage© Group Faces Loss. A. Restivo-Martin and V. Charazac
Lose and Losing Oneself: Group Analysis Work with Long-Term Psychotic Patients. E. Papathanasiou and A. Toliou
Family Therapy: Ambiguous Loss, Ambiguous Relationships, and Addiction. N. Duriez
Theoretical Promenade
Depression as a Reaction to the Loss of an Illusion. J.-D. Nasio
There Is So Much at Stake in Adolescence! The Function of Memorializing in the Renunciation Process. G. Belamich and C. Costantino
From Loss to Renunciation: A Treatment for Alcoholism. S. Déroche
Intersecting Reflections
Powerlessness and the Caregiver: From Loss to Renewed Enthusiasm. S. Delieutraz
At Home in a Nursing Home? E. Ferreira and P. Zawieja
Giving Up or Self-Renewal in the Elderly? N. Kafoa and V. Roumilhac