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Mediations, bonding and symbolization
Issue 11 : March, 2016
ISBN : 9782749250380
The development of therapeutic mediations and the efforts put into developing a rigorous modelling of these devices demonstrate the professionals’ increasing interest for these kinds of approaches… Is it a way of responding to a clinical necessity? When identity and narcissistic pains are at the first level, bodies and acts become the privileged messengers of the psychological wanderings that hospitalized patients go through. In such situations, traditional practice, which is only based on the speech, is limited. Professionals working in institutions are then led to develop alternative care devices, called mediated, which aim towards sustaining the transformation processes of the most archaic levels and open, or re-open, the way towards a more stable existential foundation. At the crossroads between Winnicot’s thoughts on the potential space, those on the group, those which consider artistic creation as a care vector and those which offer a metapsychological model of mediated care devices, the stories of mediations used in institutions strongly demonstrate the transformation possibilities that these therapeutic adjustments undercover.
Therapeutic mediations are inevitable in psychological care institutions. With patients suffering from psychotic or narcissistic-identity disorders, they enable a symbolization process beyond words or, on a more archaic level, enlighten sensori-motor experiences which suffer from integration. What figuration or representation potentials do mediated devices reveal? How do they help underpin symbolization processes? Within such therapeutic devices, what is the role of the groupal psychic envelope in order to contain and transform excitement into representation?
Authors
Annick BISMUTH, Serge BOIMARE, Anne BRUN, Nayla CHIDIAC, Charlotte COSTANTINO, Mayssa' EL HUSSEINI, Laurence EXERTIER, Christophe FERVEUR, Caroline FORISSIER, Pierre GAUDRIAULT, Marie LE THOMAS, Elodie MARCHIN, Janine MERY, Aglaïa-Lila MITSOPOULOU-SONTA, Marie-Rose MORO, Michaël STORA, Layla TARAZI SAHAB, Marine de RAUCOURT
Table of contents
Editorial
Introducing the Thought
1. « Symbolization Specificities in Therapeutic Mediations », Anne Brun
A Voice for Mediation …
2. « Hamony and Dissonance: Choral Singing and Therapeutic Mediation », Christophe Ferveur
3. « Hearing One’s Voice in a Singing Therapeutic Workshop, the Echo as Mediation », Laurence Exertier
4. « Receiving Traumatized Patients : the Mother Tongue, a Mediated Therapeutic Lever ? », Layla Tarazi Sahab, Mayssa’ El Husseini, Marie Rose Moro
Stories and Heroes
5. « Mediation Through Video Games : Framework and Therapeutic Aspects », Michael Stora
6. « Story Telling, Narration and Symbolization: Using Tales as Mediation with Adolescents », Charlotte Costantino
7. « Learning How to Think with Hermès », Serge Boimare
Mediations and Representability
8. « Photolanguage® Mediation Method and Representability Processes », Aglaïa-Lila Mitsopoulou-Sonta
9. « Ali and the Revival of Desire in a Photo Mediation Workshop », Marie Le Thomas and Marine De Raucourt
10. « Containing Function in a Group Using Tales as Mediation with Adults Suffering from Autism and Infantile Psychosis », Caroline Forissier
Mediations, Language and Writing
11. « Writing, Dreaming, Thinking… Using Writing as a Therapeutic Mediation », Nayla Chidiac
12. « From Alcohol Pseudo Mediation to Therapeutic Mediations », Elodie Marchin and Pierre Gaudriault
13. « The Eye Hears, the Ear Sees : Rediscovering the Words’ Sensoriality », Janine Mery
In Memory of Annick Bismuth
14. « Ethics in Adult Psychiatry », Annick Bismuth
See also
The symptom : a ally?
The insolence of the symptom
Intimacy unveiled, intimate to be regained
The Challenge of Intimacy in a Care Institution
Should we be Afraid of Care Institutions?
Fear figures in the institution
Everyday Life in institutions : alienation or freedom?
« Everyday Life : Institutional Care’s True Stake ? »
Repetition’s Functions
Repetition : from Resistance to Change ?
Mediations : a therapeutic device ?
Mediations, bonding and symbolization
The act : short circuit or revival ?
Acting Out : Discharge or Object Intent?
Dependency : from Fusion to Confusion
Dependency with an End, Dependency without End
Orality Orders and Disorders at Different Times of Life
From Trauma to Possible Therapeutic Paths
From Loss to Renunciation
The Challenges of Multidisciplinarity
From Intrusion to Trauma
Containers and Psychic Care