Blessure psychique et vécu corporel : prise en charge conjointe psychiatre-psychomotricien

Abstract

Through the clinical story of a gendarme confronted with several successive traumatic events, on the occasion of violent riots in Ivory Coast, then later, in Île-de-France, the authors wish to illustrate the relevance of a joint care by the psychiatrist and the psychomotor therapist within the framework of the psychic trauma. This patient, whose physical integrity was repeatedly threatened, presents, beyond the initial experience of peritraumatic dissociation, a state of post-traumatic stress coming along with a progressive loss of the identical marks. The complementary action of the psychiatrist and the psychomotor therapist allows the joint of a direct, concrete work, on the involvement of the body and the work of word. The psychotherapeutic care attempts to build of the sense and to put in words the traumatic experience. The contribution of the psychomotricity is complementary: she allows the patient, by means of the body, to return to the “sensory”, but by giving him the possibility of a putting in act and a putting in words. The work made in psychotherapy finds its continuation in psychomotricity, and vice versa.