Clinique de la chambre d’isolement. Du candomblé à l’hôpital psychiatrique

Abstract

The use of isolation chambers in psychiatric hospitals raises many questions. It highlights caregivers to the limits of their capacity to deal with inflicting psychological suffering. It is often on the border of care and punishment. This article re-examines the representations of this treatment and focuses on the experiences of the patients. How does crisis during isolation remodel the hallucinatory process of the subject? In order to examine the function of isolation without it being reduced to its own field of reference, dialog with others (another form of thought, practice, culture and reading) has proved to be an indispensable tool. These others are the followers of candomblé, camarinha, anthropology, Salvador de Bahia, the Yoruba myth. Attempts to approach these questions can only be made using complementary methods.