De la sideration a la remise en movement chez l'enfant malade. Comment faire avec le Chaos ?

Abstract

The question of temporality is both central to our daily practice in child psychiatry liaison and to psychic problematics for chronic disease in children and adolescents. This article puts into perspective the notion of time within the ever evolving chronic disease of children and adolescents with an effect of sideration in the subject and his family, and the concept of death drive. Two clinical situations revolving around the adolescent process illustrate our aim. The question is not to challenge medical knowledge or deny the disease, but to revive a story so that children and adolescents as well as their families can reclaim the knowledge of the other and integrate it into their own narrative.