La rencontre clinique entre diagnostic et transfert, identité et identification

Objective

Our aim is to examine the relationship between the place of psychoanalysis in hospitals and the current crisis among care professionals, which is itself more broadly linked to the crisis in society, where identity issues seem to be at the forefront.

Methodology

Looking at the clinical encounter through the two lenses of diagnosis and transference opens up discussion of the issues of identity and identification that are also involved.

Results

These two axes intersect in any clinical encounter, but the current temptation is to reduce this encounter to the reasonable dimensions of the first.

Conclusion

By trying to avoid the difficulties associated with taking the second axis into account, not only is a whole part of therapeutic effectiveness lost, but it is also one of the possible causes of the deleterious effects on those in the caring professions of a clinical encounter whose central issue is primarily evaluative, thus losing its complexity and depth. As such, it is one of the possible causes of the current crisis in hospitals.