title: [To be or not to be].
abstract: It's all about life in an intensive care unit. Of course, there is an organic aspect of life, the maintenance of which relies on a knowledge. Playing with a human being, life relies also on a psychological aspect and the temptation is great to answer the problematical by knowledge as well. But such an attitude would be most inoperative. It could only serve the therapeutist in economizing his own psychological engagement in the relation with the patient. In the confrontation between patient and therapeutist, isn't it rather a question of existential work between two protagonists during which the patient would be fighting for the maintenance or the restitution of his own person, while the therapeutist tries to maintain his.
authors.affiliation: Centre de réadaptation fonctionnelle Clémenceau, Strasbourg.
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Eckert
mesh_terms: D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units; D008503:Medical Staff / Q000523:psychology; D012151:Resuscitation / Q000523:psychology*
vernacular_title: Etre en question.