[When addiction is revealed in old age]

The representations we have of old age are sometimes far from reality. An addiction may be discovered by chance late on, delaying diagnosis and treatment. A desire to change can be encouraged through expression, listening and analysing current behaviour.

[When the unconscious is not infertile]

Among infertile couples who are undergoing the process of medically assisted reproduction, those for whom no biological cause for their infertility has been detected are offered a meeting with a liaison psychiatry team. They can then continue consultations with a psychiatrist in private practice. These consultations confront the couples with the various conflicts, injuries and impulses, buried in their unconscious which can cause symptoms of infertility. What is at play for these men and women and for the structure of each couple in its singularity?

[Growing old in exile: a double punishment or a double luck?]

Between the situation of the exile, for whom all points of reference have been lost, and the clinical presentation of elderly patients, the symptomatology is similar. So what is the situation regarding the ageing of exiled patients? Exile is a trauma typically marked by five clinical phases. A clinical approach to exile between nostalgia, ageing and belonging: this reflection is based on an assessment of existing circumstances and on the epidemiological and clinical aspects relating to treatments.