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Nadine Satori1, Laura Di Lodovico1
1Unité de soins des troubles du comportement alimentaire, service du Pr Phillip Gorwood, pôle clinique des maladies mentales et de l'encéphale, site Sainte-Anne, groupe hospitalier universitaire Paris Psychiatrie et neurosciences, 100 rue de la Santé, 75014 Paris, France.
Touching someone is a multisensory encounter with the other, it is listening, hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling, perceiving, etc. This contact allows for the interpersonal circulation of a host of information in a close relationship. The caregiver touches the patient's body with his or her eyes before beginning to grasp it with his or her hands. In order to adjust his or her approach to care, he or she must be attentive to the messages that the patient sends. But touching a patient's body also means that the caregiver is touched by the emotions produced by the confrontation of the person's body with his or her own body.
Touching someone is a multisensory encounter with the other, it is listening, hearing, seeing, smelling, feeling, perceiving, etc. This contact allows for the interpersonal circulation of a host of information in a close relationship. The caregiver touches the patient's body with his or her eyes before beginning to grasp it with his or her hands. In order to adjust his or her approach to care, he or she must be attentive to the messages that the patient sends. But touching a patient's body also means that the caregiver is touched by the emotions produced by the confrontation of the person's body with his or her own body.
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