title: [The injured patient and the psyche].
abstract: This paper aims at presenting a theoretical approach of actual work done for many years with patients awaking from coma. Its general methodology comes from Peircean semiotics and reveals a deep split between a "tone" and a "type". Some of the epistemological conditions that found the treatment of singular cases are here explored. Then a model is built inspired by the Lacan's "phase of mirror", that reveals the way the team refers to the "semiotic recovery" phase.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Balat
mesh_terms: D003128:Coma / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D003422:Critical Care / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D009633:Nonverbal Communication; D012649:Self Concept; D014851:Wakefulness
vernacular_title: L'homme blessé et la psyché.