Pommier, François <br/><br/>
The Question of Masochism in Extreme Situations 

 -  2006.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> The author of this article considers the problem of masochism through two clinical cases of patients afflicted with serious diseases. He seeks to show how transfero-countertransferential movements during the cure, without necessarily explicit interpretations, can allow some patients to mobilise their behavior, even to extricate themselves from a process of internal destructiveness and to set up, when possible, other defense mechanisms than those having a masochistic bent.