This article describes the first stages of the treatment of a schizophrenic patient who is violently opposed to care. This violence is understood as the impossibility of investing the object, which endangers the patient’s own Ego. The therapeutic situation requires that the object be imposed on the patient, which leads to an erotomaniac-type relation. The end of war that has been imposed in this way takes different forms; what is at stake in the end is separation and loss.
In France, The hospitalization of minors is governed by several legislative and statutory texts which emphasize that decisions about hospitalization and care belong to the holder of parental authority. However, they also assert the principle, in keeping with the international agreement concerning the rights of the child, of the necessity of the minor’s assent to care and the preservation, in specific cases, of medical confidentiality.
Adolescence, septembre 2002, 20, 3, 574-554
Revue semestrielle de psychanalyse, psychopathologie et sciences humaines, indexée AERES au listing PsycINFO publiée avec le concours du Centre National du Livre et de l’Université de Paris Diderot Paris 7