Parkinson’s disease is a neurological syndrome of slow and progressive evolution that affects people in maturity and old age. Growing physical weakness contrasts with the maintenance of mental integrity until the end of life in most patients. This incurable disorder, which frequently lasts for years, is characterized by important chemical reactions in view of the individual’s progressive incapacity and serious consequences in his or her subjectivity. This article is about a patient we treated and the follow-up of her process of awareness and working out of the irreversibility of her disease. We also underscore the intrinsic somatic-psychological articulation, especially depression, when symptoms become more severe.
Parkinson’s disease; depression; subjectivity; non conventional psychotherapy