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Reflecting on a clinical history with a happy end, on an event which has, all of a sudden, unexpectedly, given back to much more than it had seemed we had been involved with, is without any doubt passionate; but I want at once to move out of any suspicion I want to do << wild psychosomatic>>. (Ferro 2006) how one could suppose from the Read more
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Ogden Nash’s quip implies a perfectly neutral attitude on the part of a professional to the affairs of the people he deals with. Perhaps it is a familiar view of professional people. We need our accountants, lawyers and so on to give us an objective view of our affairs. Maybe that should be what is needed from the caring professions. However, I have argued that within psychiatry carers are particularly disconcerted by the work they do (Hinshelwood, 1999; 2004). In the present paper, I wish to look in some closer detail at these interpersonal processes that occur between carers and those they care for, with particular emphasis on personality disordered people.
This Chapter will take a critical perspective, questioning and problematising the standard approach to care provision based on the consumer model as developed since about 1990 in the NHS. The critique will involve a perspective based on a relational model, in which ‘users’ will be recognised as in relation with their carers, rather than merely objects of care; and indeed ‘carers’ are, equally, in a relationship with their users. In other words the critical position is to focus on ‘users’ in context, and in the relational environment of care. Increasingly the discovery of the notion Read more
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To adapt our care devices to the migrants and to their children is a major challenge in the European society and in the current world where the migrations are varied, numerous and sometimes violent. This text presents a model of welcome and care based on the psychoanalytical clinic and on the anthropology, starting from individual stories and care’s narratives of migrants in Europe and refugees in Afghanistan. This hospitality is the major challenge in our clinical and Read more