title: From Hallucination to Fiction: The Invention of Meaning in Psychosis.
abstract: Taking their inspiration from a case history, the authors explore the effects of a writing workshop led by a professional writer for patients in a psychiatric hospital. This workshop allowed different modes of transference to unfold: transference to the analyst-therapist, transference to the writer who led the workshop, and transference to the other members of the group. The writing activity created conditions in which there could be a movement from hallucination to delusion-a delusion expressed in fiction through the act of writing. Psychotic patients "invent" a writing that remains unfinished and that relates to the experiences of persecution. Writing thus makes it possible for them to tolerate language, through its transformation into writing.
authors.affiliation: Centre de recherche psychanalyse médecine et société, Établissement Public de Santé Barthélémy Durand, Avenue du 8 mai 1945, 91152 Étampes, France. E-mail: slippi@club-internet.fr.
authors.forename: Silvia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Lippi
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Univ., Laboratoire de psychopathologie clinique: langage et subjectivité (EA 3278), Centre Hospitalier Édouard Toulouse, 118 Chemin de Mimet, 13015 Marseille, France. E-mail: celia.lehaire@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Célia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Lehaire
authors.affiliation: Aix-Marseille Univ., Laboratoire de psychopathologie clinique: langage et subjectivité (EA 3278), Centre Hospitalier Édouard Toulouse, 29 av. Robert Schuman, Maison de la Recherche, 13621 Aix-en-Provence cedex 1, France. E-mail: maria-laetitia.petit@univ-amu.fr.
authors.forename: Laetitia
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Petit
mesh_terms: D006212:Hallucinations; D006801:Humans; D011618:Psychotic Disorders; D014956:Writing