[The psychotherapy of an ereuthrobic psychotic.]

In this text the author presents the account of a psychotherapy with an ereuthrophobic psychotic. According to the account of the patient, the treatment took place in three stages: self analysis before an analyst, analysis with an analyst, and finally analysis without analysand. For each of the three stages, different stakes, and for the analyst, a role which evolves slowly through the growing capacity of the young woman to connect herself to a whole object. Then the end, which is never truly one with psychotics, the mourning process having never begun, and the analysis remaining as a safety screen, as a possible bumper. Finally, a brief theoretical elaboration concerning this treatment which, as with all treatment of the psychotic, aims at a structuration of the psychic apparatus and at an organization of defences.