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Silvia Lippi1, Célia Lehaire2, Laetitia Petit3
1Centre de recherche psychanalyse médecine et société, Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand, Avenue du 8 mai 1945, 91152 Étampes, France.
Abstract:
Taking their inspiration from a case history, the authors explore the effects of a writing workshop led by a professional writer for patients in a psychiatric hospital. This workshop allowed different modes of transference to unfold: transference to the analyst-therapist, transference to the writer who led the workshop, and transference to the other members of the group. The writing activity created conditions in which there could be a movement from hallucination to delusion-a delusion expressed in fiction through the act of writing. Psychotic patients "invent" a writing that remains unfinished and that relates to the experiences of persecution. Writing thus makes it possible for them to tolerate language, through its transformation into writing.
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