Le « Light Painting ». Écriture de lumière et conversion du regard. Une nouvelle médiation dans la prise en charge des addictions à l’adolescence

Abstract

IntroductionTechnically ``Light Painting'' is a photographic shooting which consists in revealing the bright tracks of a source thanks to a relatively slow exposure time. It was demonstrated that the grip of photos increases the hedonic sensation until the access to the enjoyment and at the same time potentialises the implication of the subjects in what they can live or experiment. The efficiency of its use in the therapeutic field was demonstrated by several studies. MethodArt Therapy sessions based on ``Light Painting'' have been taking place in the department of Psychiatry of the Teenager and the young Adult of Institut Mutualiste Montsouris with a weekly pace since 2013. ResultsThis article aims to supply clinical elements on the interest of the use of ``Light Painting" photographic technique as a therapeutic intervention tool in particular in the field of addictions in the adolescence, and quite particularly for those involving the body as Eating Disorders. Seeing oneself there and thus reconciles with an ``autonomy" of existance, an internal feeling. A ``place" for the ``Ego" or the ``Self" reappears. The subject understands by the way ``de visu'' that his or her ``Ego'' neither has the power to leave the body , nor to exceed it. This is the place in which there is either no place for one other than him. He reconquers his subjectivity, ``this place which makes" body ``with the test which it does not stop making of his own limitation or finiteness". The ``Embodied" reemerges and an internal feeling shows itself at the same time as pulsatile and alive. Conclusion``Light painting" is not a new therapeutic gadget and - following the example of Photolanguage - has its own indications. It allows a new way of expressing what you feel in your body, to the ``self'', to others, in space and in time. The group setting makes it a therapeutic tool in its own right. This leads to a metabolization of the unconscious and preconscious subjective psychic reality that relies on the containing function of the group and on the therapist as a third party.