ABSTRACT
Chapter Eight turns to Jean Benjamin Stora, an erstwhile collaborator of Pierre Marty’s, who pays attention to shocks that upset the balances necessary for the individual to thrive, and who has a particular sensibility to the necessity of a shared familiarity with the patient's imaginary worlds of reference for psychoanalytic treatment to succeed. If an excessive investment in work might serve as an anti-traumatic measure outside hospital, turning oneself into a highly invested collection of facts, offers benefits to certain patients, some of whom may be able to protect their own subjective belief systems in this way. Stora’s contributions show a marked awareness of material culture from an ethnopsychoanalytic perspective. Illusion, we may gather from Stora, can be conducive to the inception of form. The situation of the psychosomatician at the hospital, at times an outsider on the inside, deserves, as we can learn from him, particular attention. Stora himself, for many years, worked as a psychosomatic consultant attached to the hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière's department of endocrinology. Drawing on his experience, he was able to establish a university diploma course in Psychosomatique intégrative.
