title: [Supporting people with psychosis with and despite their denial].
abstract: Denial is an unconscious defence mechanism. Found in people with psychosis, it can make the task of supporting these patients difficult. The French service for the medical-social support of disabled adults (SAMSAH) is confronted with this defence mechanism. Rather than a therapeutic relationship, the mission of this service is one of psychosocial rehabilitation. Placed in a position of impotence, those supporting the patients need to analyse the notion of the relationship and the feelings which the person makes them experience.
authors.affiliation: Samsah Oxygene, 3ter, avenue du Léman, 74100 Annemasse, France. Electronic address: mgbosson@orange.fr.
authors.forename: Michèle
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gaillard-Bosson
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D003717:Denial, Psychological; D006233:Persons with Disabilities / Q000523:psychology* / Q000534:rehabilitation; D005602:France; D005619:Freudian Theory; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D009723:Nurse-Patient Relations; D011618:Psychotic Disorders / Q000451:nursing* / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D014473:Unconscious, Psychology
keywords: SAMSAH; Samsah; accompagnement; defence; denial; défense; déni; inconscient; psychose; psychosis; support; unconscious