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Scientific progress has shaped the “medical order”, with the temptation to eliminate the “human order” from its logic. But the confrontation with the suffering body and to death keeps questioning the sick and those who tend them, in anguish and a quest for meaning. In this truth-bearing trial, everyone must endure the agony of a fight to allow the survival of a fraternity spirit. A fight with the violence of affects, the risk of denial, the temptation to cling to pure thinking, and the institutional violence which often derives from it. Confronted with the sick, medical teams are caught between the forbidden and the impossible, they have to reinvent the foundations of a genuine ethic, through the acceptance of another kind of listening and seeing.

Keywords: esprit, fraternité, agonie, interdit, impossible, spirit, fraternity, agony, forbidden, impossible

Nazism has initiated systematization of terror in the Jewish genocide: violences on citizens, mutilations, disintegration of corpses, disparition of mortal remains. Terrorists develop total terror strategy too, adding to the victims of the attacks (wounded and deads), those of the traumatism (survivors and bereaved). They are not only killing people but they are organizing horror through violence, aleatory death and guiltlessness of victims. This hypothesis is verified by the importance of post-traumatic grieves. The lack of corpses or their destruction prevents essential stages of grief work: the awareness of reality then the acceptance of loss. Can only revange come into view of so much pain? Is'nt it the principal threat of terrorism: to develop the mortifying spiral of a position war based on retaliation?

Keywords: terreur, deuil post-traumatique, traumatisme, rites funéraires, horreur, terror, post-traumatic grief, traumatism, funerary rites, horror

Perinatal grief is very intricate and complex because of the various implications for the parents. The impact of perinatal grief is not well understood by relatives and often played down. Some nurses of the Centre hospitalier Pierre-Boucher de Longueuil have been providing perinatal mourning follow-up since 1991 and have helped more than 450 families. A professional follow-up breaks the parents' loneliness and gives them manage opportunity to express their suffering in a positive way, thereby helping them get through their grief. The follow-up improves the dialogue and understanding within the couple and reduces the negative repercussions on family members. The professional help should also be continued during the next pregnancy.

Keywords: deuil périnatal, père, mère, accompagnement, perinatal mourning, father, mother, monitoring

The occurrence of violence is a true risk within the clinical relations involved in palliative care. The medical approach of the human crisis in which occurs the necessity of palliative care implies a drastic reduction of the existential dimensions of that crisis. The measurable biological aspects of the crisis are taken under consideration more easily than the “subjective” ones. Violence occurs in such a subject-destructive reduction. In that context, the caring human beings as well as the cared ones feel themselves as single wheels involved in a mechanical dishumanizing process. And therefore they consider themselves as discharged of any personal liability in this anonymized process. In order to palliate this paradoxal derivation of palliative care, we propose a renewed approach of violence phenomena in clinical contexts. This ethical approach is grounded on a philosophical elucidation of the subjective meaning of the dying process.

Keywords: éthique clinique, soins palliatifs, violence, crise existentielle, subjectivité, mort, clinical ethics, palliative care, violence, existential crisis, subjectivity, death

The purpose of this article is to go to the heart of the work of massotherapy as practised in Quebec for some ten years now, and to show that this therapeutic method is far more than an adjuvant to muscular-skeletal disorders. Without ascribing to it an essentially psychological scope, the author defines massotherapy as belonging to the psychotherapies involving the body, i.e. therapies centring on the patient's body and in which the therapeutist is also interested in what is going on in his own body. The focus is placed on what is happening to the body and on the characteristics proper to the therapeutic context of massotherapy, such as nudity, intimacy and an emphasis on listening to the messages sent out by the body. Such characteristics make this practice a powerful alternative therapy because it "subjects" its user to a way of being and to values which are often foreign to the relationship to the body and the self which prevails in the West.

Among solutions in regard of threatening or violent behaviors perpetrated by psychiatric patients, prosecution is an option often disregarded, but potentially beneficial.

Keywords: judiciarisation, sanction, violence, Judiciarisation, sanction, violence

Since 2011, an upsurge in evidence has been documenting the needs and issues of young people and children who feel different in their gender. If it turns out that they are still among the young people most at risk of suicide, peer violence, school failure, depression, anxiety and eating disorders, the living environment (accepting and supporting) seems the most determining factor for their psychic, relational and somatic health and their social and professional integration. To promote harmonious development for trans and questioning young people, an anti-oppressive perspective is needed today.

Keywords: transgenre, non binaire, enfants, adolescent, transaffirmatif, anti-oppressif, transgender, non binary, children, adolescent, transaffirmative, anti-oppressive

Social work being a profession that concentrates on the relationship between individuals and their environment, it seems to be in a good position to help understand handicap by increasing the importance given to environmental factors, that long have been put aside in favor of individual factors. Although, since all disciplinary projects are actualized in a dialogue with their context, it becomes interesting to explore the real expression of the professional identity of social workers employed in rehabilitation settings for people who have physical disabilities, which has been done through a doctoral research. Results demonstrate that, starting with a conception of social work that is partly consistent with the ecological approach, the context influences the way participants take environmental factors into consideration in their diverse roles and tasks. Before bringing the article to a close, these results are discussed in comparison with scientific knowledge on the topic.

Keywords: déficience physique, travail social, identité professionnelle, rôles professionnels, méthodologie de la théorisation enracinée, physical disabilities, social work, professional identity, professional roles, grounded theory

Keywords: ethnographie, mémoire, migration, musique, violence, ethnography, memory, migration, music, violence