Based on a psychotic patient’s words — and on applying psychoanalytic concepts —, we question the differential value of words, of writing and of the author’s signature in the psychological treatment of a patient in a mental health institution. The psychologist’s interventions allow for symptomatic stabilization, resulting in the limitation of suffering, in the possibility of bonding with other people, and to a less intrusive “reality”.
psychic structure; psychoanalysis; words; psychosis; creation; writing