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The symptom : a ally?

Issue 22 : January, 2022


The symptom is a sign, which can come out within the body, the psyche or through pathological behaviours. It can sometimes be a message to the other, requesting an answer or arousing a reaction. It can also be an attempt to conciliate the irreconcilable, desire and ban for instance, or narcissism and link to the objects of attachment. No matter how destructive - anxiety, melancholy, delusion for instance – the symptom can be conceived as an attempt at defence against even more threatening and unthinkable anxieties. Fortunately, there can be fast reliefs but sometimes the rest can be short-lived. A treatment focused on a specific symptom gives sometimes free rein to other psychopathological expressions. So why not consider the symptom as an ally? Not being indifferent to the suffering while using what it tries to convey more or less without the knowledge of the patient? The wellbeing which is sought by the psychic care institutions for their patients can be sustainable if the meanings of the symptom within the personal life course are unveiled.

Authors

Table of contents

EDITORIAL
Patrick de Saint-Jacob
 
INTRODUCING THE THOUGHT
 
1. Introduction, Catherine Ducarre
 
2. The lure of the symptom in psychoanalytic treatment, Thomas H. Ogden et Glen O. Gabbard
 
 
THE SYMPTOM OVER GENERATIONS
 
3. The cheeky denial of pregnancy, Annick Calaber
 
 
4. The parental conflict as a symptom : from the fantasy of samba and carnival to the reality of parenthood, Carla Martins Mendès et Fernanda Ribeiro Palermo
 
 
5. The lie of the child : a symptom of malfunction of adults, Sébastien Chapellon 
 
 
THE SYMPTOM : A MESSAGE IN SEARCH OF TRANSLATION
 
 
6. Deciphering the symptom in multi-partner care, Emmanuelle Chervet
 
7. Ali, much ado about (really) nothing ?, Anne-André Reille 
 
 
8. Plurality of counter-transferences and change's process within an individual psychoanalytic psychodrama, Adrien Blanc, Pierre-Justin Chantepie, Cécile Albert, Aurélie Durand, Nicolas Schlosser et Fatoumata Tym Sow
 
THE SYMPTOM SERVING THE EGO
 
9. The autistic symptom, the part of oneself, Coline Henno
 
10. Self-mutilation : a paradoxical symptom, Natália de Oliveira de Paula Cidade et Silvia Maria Abu-Jamra Zornig
 
11. The symbolic value of the child symptom, Marie-Laure Léandri
 
THE SYMPTOM : TO BE OR TO HAVE ?
 
 
12. The character of the symptom and the symptom of character, Vassilis Kapsambelis
 
13. Melancholy : to be or to have ?, Jean-Nicolas Despland
 
14. The character of the crisis, Christophe Ferveur
 
Lectures….


See also




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L'insolence du symptôme

The insolence of the symptom

Intimité dévoilée, intime à retrouver

Intimacy unveiled, intimate to be regained

L'intime à l'épreuve de la vie institutionnelle

The Challenge of Intimacy in a Care Institution

Faut-il avoir peur des institutions de soin?

Should we be Afraid of Care Institutions?

Les figures de la peur en institution

Fear figures in the institution

La vie quotidienne en institution : aliénation ou libération ?

Everyday Life in institutions : alienation or freedom?

La vie quotidienne : le véritable enjeu du soin psychique en institution ?

« Everyday Life : Institutional Care’s True Stake ? »

Les fonctions de la répétition

Repetition’s Functions

La répétition : entre résistance et changement

Repetition : from Resistance to Change ?

Les médiations : un dispositif thérapeutique ?

Mediations : a therapeutic device ?

Médiations, lien et symbolisation

Mediations, bonding and symbolization

L'acte : court-circuit ou relance ?

The act : short circuit or revival ?

Clinique de l'agir : décharge ou adresse objectale ?

Acting Out : Discharge or Object Intent?

La dépendance : de la fusion à la confusion

Dependency : from Fusion to Confusion

Dépendances avec fin, dépendances sans fin

Dependency with an End, Dependency without End

Ordres et désordres de l'oralité aux différents âges de la vie

Orality Orders and Disorders at Different Times of Life

Du traumatisme aux voies thérapeutiques possibles

From Trauma to Possible Therapeutic Paths

De la perte au renoncement

From Loss to Renunciation

Les enjeux de la pluridisciplarité

The Challenges of Multidisciplinarity

De l'effraction au traumatisme

From Intrusion to Trauma

Contenance et soin psychique

Containers and Psychic Care

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