Sensoriality and Hallucinatory Experience in a Clinical Context of Criminality. A “Body and Painting” Group in a Prison
- By Émeline Garnier
- and Anne Brun
Pages 1149 to 1160
Cite this article
- GARNIER, Émeline
- and BRUN, Anne,
- Garnier, Émeline.
- et al.
- Garnier, É.
- and Brun, A.
https://doi.org/10.3917/rfp.804.1149
Cite this article
- Garnier, É.
- and Brun, A.
- Garnier, Émeline.
- et al.
- GARNIER, Émeline
- and BRUN, Anne,
https://doi.org/10.3917/rfp.804.1149
This article puts forward the hypothesis that the criminal act is an impulse of sur-vival in the face of sensory hallucinations. From this perspective, the difficulty criminals have in recognizing themselves in their acts may be linked to a sensation of being cut off from their own bodies, to a disorganisation of sensoriality owing to catastrophic experiences, such as experiences of penetration, explosion, mutilation and dismantling. Pictorial mediation in a group setting allows incarcerated criminal patients to gradually get in touch with a subject through the reactualization, in the form of hallucinated sensations, of archaic experiences which will be represented for the first time in pictorial forms, and through the subjective appro-priation of these catastrophic sensorial experiences.
Keywords
- Crime
- Hallucination
- Sensoriality
- Painting mediation
Publisher keywords: Crime, Hallucination, Painting mediation, Sensoriality