Writing and life in an intensive care unit. The importance of logbooks in epidemic weather
Sportouch, Sabine
Writing and life in an intensive care unit. The importance of logbooks in epidemic weather - 2023.
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As a clinical psychologist in intensive care unit, I am interested here in the exciting function that writing has played for the caregivers of our department, through the “dashboards” made for patients with Covid-19 and/or their families. These notebooks were the place of sharing fear and anguish, the place of dramatization and a subjective scene, the narrative putting order in the face of somatic, senseless, disorganizing disease, leaving relatives and caregivers destitute. Place also of a magical thought supposed to repair the experience of impotence in the face of an unknown pathology; place where words have the power to prevent tragic events; place of a life drive held in the word and collective narrative through which an individual memory can be reconstructed; instead of a narrative continuity in the face of somatic discontinuity; instead of a therapeutic commitment in a situation of impasse; instead of an unconscious challenge to death, place of the sound of words to try to keep it at a distance.
Writing and life in an intensive care unit. The importance of logbooks in epidemic weather - 2023.
93
As a clinical psychologist in intensive care unit, I am interested here in the exciting function that writing has played for the caregivers of our department, through the “dashboards” made for patients with Covid-19 and/or their families. These notebooks were the place of sharing fear and anguish, the place of dramatization and a subjective scene, the narrative putting order in the face of somatic, senseless, disorganizing disease, leaving relatives and caregivers destitute. Place also of a magical thought supposed to repair the experience of impotence in the face of an unknown pathology; place where words have the power to prevent tragic events; place of a life drive held in the word and collective narrative through which an individual memory can be reconstructed; instead of a narrative continuity in the face of somatic discontinuity; instead of a therapeutic commitment in a situation of impasse; instead of an unconscious challenge to death, place of the sound of words to try to keep it at a distance.
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