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M Balat

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[The injured patient and the psyche].

This paper aims at presenting a theoretical approach of actual work done for many years with patients awaking from coma. Its general methodology comes from Peircean semiotics and reveals a deep split between a "tone" and a "type". Some of the epistemological conditions that found the treatment of singular cases are here explored. Then a model is built inspired by the Lacan's "phase of mirror", that reveals the way the team refers to the "semiotic recovery" phase.

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[Coma, dream and thinking: a semiotic approach].

The notion of "frontier-dream", with a high perceptive direct content, is defined from accounts of dream experienced during coma. Then, from discussions with nursing-team working in units for comatose patients in a wakeful state, a protocol is proposed based on semiotic and psychoanalytical factors which aims at ensuring the global care of the comatose patient considered as a person.

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