This article presents a special setting with a mediating object in the group. It shows the synergy between the group and the mediating object, which is used particularly with difficult patients. The main aspects of the setting explored are the container function and the containing function with the method called Photolanguage.
This article deals with the psychological work required from professionals working in the sphere of care and social work in order to be able to commit themselves to the different patients they work with on a daily basis. This psychological work which, in the wake of the works of Nathalie Zaltzman (1998, 2007), is based on a transformational group process, with reference to Freud (1932) is called 'Kulturarbeit'. We propose that this process operates specifically within self-reflective spaces for which Professional Practice Analysis (PPA) serves as a paradigm. A clinical situation will help us to discuss the effectiveness and the validity of this approach.
Résumé L’auteur reprend tout d’abord le processus du vieillir sur un plan psycho-dynamique, avec son cortège de pertes. Puis elle aborde le fait démentiel dans une discontinuité par rapport au vieillir et de ses résonances au niveau du fonctionnement familial. Son hypothèse est que la démence attaque les liens familiaux, entraînant indifférenciation et distorsion du lien ; sur le plan intrafamilial, elle observe un fonctionnement régressif, avec une grande souffrance syncrétique, et sur le plan généalogique, une grande souffrance transgénérationnelle. Elle parle d’une transmission des effets du traumatisme dans la filiation, avec ses processus de déliaison. Une séquence clinique illustre le propos.
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