In terms of identity in intersexity — sexual science and psychodynamic rapprochement Katinka Swiss (Hamburg) Identity has only arrived at a relatively late stage in psychoanalytic literature and theory: Erik Erikson has highlighted the dialectic inherent to identity between individual uniqueness and...

The authors try to place Hanna Segal’s work in the history of psychanalysis ideas. Two of his contributions have profoundly affected psychanalytic thinking: his thoughts on symbolism and his theory of aesthetic experience. Other important contributions concern the question of interpretation, the tre...

peer reviewed Examined the personality disorders among relatively old dyslexic children. The degree of disorientation of these Ss parallels the degree of fragmentation of personality. In the Rorschach test and TAT, the image of the self is poorly differentiated from a poorly structured maternal imag...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebIf early mother-infant interactions in the event of maternal depression have been widely studied, we are much less familiar with those of psychotic mothers. Studies, comparing early interactions in different maternal mental conditions, are also rare. This study aims to assess w...

emerged around 1980, AIDS (Acquise immunodeficiency syndrome) spread around the world, inspiring its psytic passage and human destruction. Faced with the disconcerting impotence of medicine to eradicate this scourge, the use of condoms is one of the safest ways of mitigating its effects. Yet people...

As it stands, psychoanalytic theory offers several models that can identify the effects of psychotic structure in the subject. Compensation, decompensation, triggering, stabilization, symptom and supplementation will first be located in the elaborations of Freud and Lacan. The contribution that foll...

table of honour of the Faculty of Higher and Postdoctoral Studies, 2012-2013. Bipolar disorder is associated with several cognitive and personality features. Among the factors proposed to explain the onset of symptoms and affective episodes following particular life events is the cognitive evaluatio...

Based on the proven outcomes of the individual motivational interview in psychotic patients who use cannabis, a Swiss team complemented their individual care with motivational groups. The format of these groups further mobilises these patients and in particular promotes the balance of decisions.

‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe author focuses on the Rorschach of psychotic children and, more specifically, on the flaws in the envelope and bodily integrity, and relies on the distinction proposed by Esther BICK between non-integration and disintegration in order to identify two types of psychological...

If exposure to childhood trauma increases the risk to later develop a psychotic disorder, the impact of such events on clinical presentation and outcome after a first psychotic episode deserves attention both in order to identify specific patients' needs and to develop adapted therapeutic interventi...

International audience <strong>Background</strong> Major depressive disorder (MDD) is underdiagnosed and undertreated in schizophrenia, and has been strongly associated with impaired quality of life. <strong>Aims</strong> To determine the prevalence and associated factors of MDD and unremitted MDD i...

This article presents teamwork in the Centre psychotherapiquee de La Velotte. Through a clinical presentation, we show how the transfer constellation is deployed at the heart of our team, and how it allows us to return to the patient the various divisive parts he has been able to project outside the...

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How do the jalousy and desire of the other relate to psychosis and obsessive neurosis? A “demonstration of sick person” (Lacan) and the prisoner of Marcel Proust allow us to shed light on this issue, with a guide to the “algorithm” of the augustinian scene of jalousy given by Lacan in Le Désir and i...

International audience ObjectivesThe present clinical research explores the underlying logic of litigious paranoid delusion, more specifically in its querulous and pseudo-altruistic forms. This research examines both the causality and the psychic functions fulfilled by episodes of vengeful acting ou...

It may be in the surroundings of Pussin that the first traces of ‘rational foleys’ will be found. A further step was taken in 1834 with François Leuret’s ‘arrangers’ who oppose the ‘incoherencies’. In the 1860s, Campagne itself would make a wonderful summary of the issue, preparing the French School...

This study provides a language analysis through some scenes of a corpus of four mosaic films by the French filmmaker Arnaud DESPLECHIN: How I competed... (“my sex life”) (1996); Kidney and Queen (2004); A Christmas storm (Roubaix!) (2008) and Three memories of my youth (our arcadies) (2015). In the...

taking as the starting point the reception of a psychologist at a crisis pavilion of a psychiatric service, we refer to the follow-up she has carried out for six months to a young hospitalised man presenting a child psyt. This clinical meeting gave rise to a reflection allowed by the ‘good and fair...

‘titrebSummary’/titrebUp from the presentation of a case of murder by a schizophrene, the first of the pathological experiences of the common world allows us to look for the fundamental nucleus of psysis: that of the loss of the natural light of living together, and thus the experience of the factic...

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‘titrebSummary’/titrebThe author looks at the diversity of perverse patterns and develops the necessary differentiation between sexual and sexual perversity. He pointed to the more archaic nature and closer to the perversity psychosis. The case of Laurent, a sexual aggressor, was discussed to this e...

The author envisages the avatars of people who have grown up with parents suffering great mental suffering.