VOTADORO P.,RETCHMAN R., STERN S. Contagious anxiety

The adolescent process sometimes leads to an anxiety about disappearing, of being annihilated, whose main characteristic is that can be shared - and may even be contagious - among one's family and friends. In this case, it dramatizes itself, most often casting the body as the principle protagonist.

Mots clés Annihilation anxiety, Annihilation, Institutional care.