title: [Living his illness. The experience of new territories of the body].
abstract: Illness as a specific experience of live, deals with a new way of living for everyone. This personal moment breaks former marks and builds new ones in every existence. These landmarks mean the discovery of unknown spatiality's intimacy. All along illness experience, because of their vulnerability, patients are especially exposed to a lot of tactlessness situations. Very often, secret territories of the self, in a way, are laying bare by tactlessness attitudes. Every medical or nursing care needs to be aware of symbolic injury risks.
authors.forename: Luc
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Andrieux
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D012934:Social Isolation