[An apperture effect in hypochondria]

It is usual to consider hypocondriac patients as jailed in their own bodies; of course, this jail may be a protection against declared paranoiac or paranoid states. However, our experience has shown us that in certain cases, there are some possibilities of aperture if we feel ourself free enough with our medical identity and if we keep silent as long as the patient is not able to hear us. A step is then allowed to him. Our prudent remark concerns the story which is then gradually revealed: it is often the story of the secret of maternal suffering which is enclosed in his own body.