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Keywords: yoga sensible au trauma, trauma complexe, psychothérapie de groupe
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Play is considered by several authors as the principal means used by the child to represent and communicate intrapsychic conflicts and relational difficulties, express unconscious fantasies, and elaborate and modulate anxieties related to these fantasies. Neglect and maltreatment within the early significant relationships may impair the development of the child's symbolic capacity. Physical and sexual abuse during childhood can also provoke a temporary loss of the child's ability for pretend play. Another consequence of maltreatment is the presence of post-traumatic themes and play activities related to a literal and compulsive repetition of traumas. This article presents the psychotherapy of a young girl who has been exposed to complex trauma before the age of 3. Firstly, the child's life history and different foster placements are recounted. Secondly, clinical examples are used to illustrate the symbolic and post-traumatic themes and play activities showed by the child in psychotherapy. The authors distinguish post-traumatic play segments from abreactive ones, the latter representing a moderate expression of the trauma. Finally, therapeutic attitudes and techniques aimed to facilitate the child's psychic elaboration of trauma are discussed.
Keywords: jeu, trauma, jeu traumatique, attitudes et stratégies thérapeutiques, enfant, play, trauma, post-traumatic pay, therapeutic attitudes and techniques, child
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The concept of “dangerosity” as applied to a single individual excludes other forms of social violence.I) A “mythical” function which names what appears threatening.II) An “instrumental” function which identifies the so-called Social Disease, legitimizes the violence of incarceration, and pursues the quest for a rationale.III) A “symbolic” function which points out dangerous individuals in order to set them apart.The clinician becomes a prisoner of that notion. As an expert he is forced by the judicial process to restrict the psychic reality down to the responsibility and irresponsibility levels. The play-then moves on from the social to the individual scene. Within the institution, he must tell fantasies and reality apart while at the same time — caught in the trap — he becomes the “watcher” of those excluded.Society asks the clinician to restore its image of a perfect world but when the penalty is applied, it seems likely that it can be traced back to the same drives.
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While severe mental disorders have consistently been shown to be more prevalent among inmates of penal institutions than among the general population, the provision of mental health within jails, prisons and penitentiaries has always been, and continues to be, problematic. The present investigation was designed to examine the impact on patients of one organizational model of mental health care for penitentiary inmates. Ninety-nine men who were transferred from a penitentiary to a maximum security hospital for varying periods of time were followed for three years after discharge. Relapse and criminal recidivism were documented from official files. Interviews were conducted at the end of the follow-up period in order to examine subject's level of social functionning and mental state. Specific conclusions are drawn about the way in which mental health care was provided and the benefit which accrued to the patients.