title: [Taking the responsibility of a 'knowledge' one only has access during mental health consultations: stakes of an ethical issue].
abstract: Everyone has a certain knowledge of what psychologically constitutes him/her. Part of the therapist's ethical approach is to help this knowledge come to conscience. Apart from the analytical process, within one or a few therapeutic sessions, is the person consulting able to have access to a minimal knowledge about him-herself? Using this knowledge to guide certain aspects of his-her life, calls upon an ethics of responsibility on the part of the person consulting. To have this knowledge emerge demands on the therapists' part, a concept of the human being that takes into account subjective dimensions of the person.
authors.affiliation: Service de psychiatrie infantile et juvénile (SPIJ), Centre régional de services de santé et de services sociaux de Rimouski, Québec.
authors.forename: Bernadette
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Colombel
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000293:Adolescent; D001364:Awareness; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D026690:Ethics, Clinical; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D028681:Moral Obligations; D010358:Patient Participation; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000941:ethics*; D012017:Referral and Consultation / Q000941:ethics*; D012648:Self Care / Q000941:ethics / Q000523:psychology; D012647:Self-Assessment