par Matot, Jean-Paul
Référence Neuropsychiatrie de l'enfance et de l'adolescence, 36, 4, page (125-131)
Publication Publié, 1988
Article révisé par les pairs
Résumé : During the military service various psycho-pathological reactions occur, some of being characterised by an intense anguish due to separation. Some teenagers suffer from being away too long from home and their mother to the point of having their very sense of being impaired. Their vulnerability is more acute in the army because the obligation to live permanently in a group increases the phantasms of intrusion and loss of the limits of the self. Wearing the army uniform and collective military drill are agressions against the inner function of the skin which is at the basis of the identity feeling. We underline the striking reversibility of these destructuring states of anxiety which brings us to consider them within the framework of teenage troubles and induces us to be very cautious in our therapeutic aid.