Gaillard, Georges <br/><br/>
Carrying Out the Primary Tasks: How Can Professional Bodies Protect Themselves from Confusion and Division? 

 -  2006.<br/>							 
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<br/><br/> In order to carry out their primary task, professional bodies have to safeguard themselves from contagions inherent to encountering the archaic: confusion and division. From then on, they have to be doubly and regulary restored into their differences and to be felt to be in sufficient confidence and security. These dynamics are correlated to specific acts of recognition as regards to the institutional referents. The psychic configuration of these groups proceeds from imaginary identifications, underlying fantasies. Taking these patterns into account enables violence to be released and opens up a possible encounter with the “users.” These perspectives are developed on the base of an intervention in the institution-the crisis having precipitated a time of confusion between professionals and the public users.