Alain Blanchet

• Professor
• Professor (Full) émérite at École de Psychologues Praticens

Priming studies have revealed semantic processing abnormalities in subjects that display high schizotypal traits. The objective of the present study was to further elucidate the contribution of predictive (expectancy) and integrative (semantic matching) context processing to the semantic deficit described in schizotypy. Thirty-six participants were...

This study presents a reflection relative to the impact of the psychological care on two patients with cancer in two phases: remission and recurrence. We try to highlight the question, for a trainee psychologist, of “interfering” in the relation already established by a patient with his psychologist. In the first case (remission), our objective is...

Context processing abnormalities may explain thought disorder in schizophrenia/schizotypy. This study aimed to assess predictive and integrative context processing in subjects with high or low scores on the Schizotypal Personality Questionnaire (SPQ). The N400 amplitude was recorded during semantic judgment of sentence pairs ending with a lateraliz...

Few studies have examined the impact of weight gain on body image disturbance (BID) in patients suffering from anorexia nervosa (AN). This study aims to explore the evolution of body distortion and body dissatisfaction following inpatient treatment. Sixty-four women suffering from AN enrolled in our inpatient Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy progr...

Pourquoi la plupart des patients pris en charge dans des dispositifs de soin par la parole guérissent-ils de leurs maux, alors que la plupart de ces dispositifs pratiquent des types de soins qui semblent très éloignés les uns des autres ? Dans quelle mesure la psychothérapie est-elle un moyen "rationnel" d'aider à guérir ? Quel est le pouvoir de la...

Background: Many researches on maltreated and foster children highlighted internalized and externalized symptoms in this population. However, few studies have looked at how a child interacts with caregivers in the context of foster care. Purpose: The purpose of this study is to explore the Emotion Regulation Strategies (ERS) of children in foster...

Environmental stress is a key element to the understanding of thepsychopathology of children in foster care. Such children often present a widerange of symptoms from anxiety to depression, including abnormal behaviorsin their interactions with adults that can be related to experience sufferedin their family of origin (e.g., abandonment, abuse, etc....

Résumé Objectifs Alors même que l’évaluation précise de l’efficacité des psychothérapies a jusqu’ici achoppé, l’État vient tout juste de s’engager à reconnaître ces soins par l’entremise de leur financement. Conjointement, eu égard au développement des connaissances épidémiologiques en santé mentale et des conceptions neurobiologiques les plus réc...

Neuropsychiatric disorders are one of the frequent complications of neurocognitive disease, and have an impact on the quality of life of patients and caregivers. Non-phamacologic interventions are recommended as first-line treatment. The Snoezelen method is a multisensory stimulation method based on the assumption that acting on sensoriality can im...

Acts of abuse are indicative of a parent's inability to regulate his or her own emotions in an appropriate manner and jeopardize a child's development. Foster care should provide a safe environment both to protect a child from harm and to heal a damaging social-emotional developmental trajectory. How does a child learn to regulate his or her emotio...

Daniel Widlöcher est décédé le 14 décembre 2021. Daniel Widlöcher fut Professeur des Universités, Chef du Service de Psychiatrie de la Pitié-Salpétrière, Président de l’Association Psychanalytique Internationale, membre et président de la Section 26 : « Cerveau, cognition, comportement » du Comité national du CNRS et Président de l’École de Psychol...

Résumé Après un rappel du cadre historique et actuel de la pratique clinique, et avant d’aborder en conclusion la formation au diagnostic et à la prévention des dérives sectaires, il est souhaitable de souligner et d’expliciter quel peut être l’apport de la psychologie sociale des interactions à la question. Plus précisément, il s’agira de focalise...

A deficit in context processing may underlie theory of mind (ToM) difficulties in schizophrenia, although few studies to date have explored the impact of contextual processing on ToM performances within the same task. We used electroencephalography to investigate the production of intentional inferences from highly versus weakly structured sentence...

Évaluer l'efficacité des thérapies complémentaires et éventuellement alternatives

L'interaction du verbal et du non verbal dans l'instauration de la relation clinique L'instauration de la relation clinique s'établit à partir d'une rencontre entre le patient et le clinicien dans un contexte communicatif très particulier. Ce contexte est défini par un environnement matériel, une sorte de contrat relationnel et des buts de soins. I...

ont porté sur l'interaction verbale et non verbale dans l'entretien clinique et les psychothérapies.  Sillon Bénédicte Psychologue clinicienne, psychothérapeute. Enseignante et chargée de mission à l'École de Psychologues Praticiens (Paris)-Son travail porte sur la mise en cohérence interne de la personne et la communication interpersonnelle au se...

L'homéopathie est une discipline thérapeutique fondée sur trois principes théoriques qui ressortissent à la fois à une médecine traditionnelle fondée sur le corps comme totalité et à une médecine moderne fondée sur la spécificité du médicament proposé. Ces principes reposent sur la similitude, le dosage infinitésimal et l'individualisation du soin...

Le point de vue psychologique sur l'homéopathie

As research has shown a consistent link between the alliance and the therapeutic success, an alliance-focused supervision was designed to help novice therapists improve their relational and collaborative abilities. Fifteen young therapists participated in the alliance-focused supervision and 15 did not. Therapists’ and clients’ results at the Worki...

Abstract As part of a doctoral thesis in psychology (Suissa, 2017), we assessed the impact of the use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) in patients with cancer. Using a method that is both qualitative and quantitative, we compared the experience of 32 patients using or not using MCA (group 1 and 2), in a complementary or alternative t...

Dans le cadre d’une thèse de doctorat en psychologie (Suissa, 2017), nous avons évalué l’impact du recours aux Médecines complémentaires et alternatives (MCA) chez les patients atteints de cancer. À partir d’une méthode à la fois qualitative et quantitative, nous avons comparé le vécu de 32 patients utilisant ou non les MCA (groupe 1 et 2), de faço...

Background: Caregivers play a crucial role in the clinical evolution of patients with schizophrenia. In order to optimize their support, it is necessary to adjust it according to the phase and severity of the patient's illness. However, little interest has been given in the experience of family caregivers as a function on disease progression. Objec...

Un nombre accru de patients atteints d’un cancer ou de maladies sévères impliquant des soins et un suivi hospitalier, réguliers, s’orientent vers des prises en charges en complément ou en alternative aux thérapeutiques de la médecine dite orthodoxe. Ces patients qui choisissent ainsi d’avoir recours à ces aides thérapeutiques dites hétérodoxes repr...

L’objectif de cette étude était de tester l’impact du déficit contextuel sur l’activation et la mise à jour de la représentation des états mentaux d’autrui dans la schizophrénie. Dix-sept participants atteints de schizophrénie et 17 participants témoins ont complété une tâche de compréhension comprenant 72 histoires se terminant par une phrase litt...

La simple présence d'un inconnu a un impact négatif sur les capacités sémantico-pragmatiques dans la schizotypie.

The objective of this electrophysiological study was to investigate the processing of semantic coherence during encoding in relation to episodic memory processes promoted at test, in schizophrenia patients, by using the N400 paradigm. Eighteen schizophrenia patients and 15 healthy participants undertook a recognition memory task. The stimuli consis...

Introduction – La schizophrénie est caractérisée par un trouble de la communication qui entrave les relations interpersonnelles et contribue au handicap social associé à la maladie. Les personnes atteintes de schizophrénie sont particulièrement en difficulté lorsqu’il s’agit de comprendre les messages non littéraux, très fréquents dans la communica...

Cet article traite des thérapeutiques hétérodoxes dans le champ de la santé et rend compte de l’évolution du soin conventionnel dans le recours aux médecines complémentaires et alternatives (MCA) chez les patients. Depuis plusieurs années, dans les centres de soins se développent de nombreuses pratiques non conventionnelles, communément nommées MCA...

Introduction: Even though episodic memory is impaired in schizophrenia, semantic processing strategies can improve patients' performance. However, it is less clear if negative schizophrenia patients can benefit from semantic strategies, and if both familiarity and recollection processes can be enhanced in patients with schizophrenia. Objective: The...

Pourquoi la plupart des patients pris en charge dans des dispositifs de soin par la parole DSP (dont font partie les psychothérapies modernes) guérissent-ils de leurs maux alors que la plupart de ces dispositifs pratiquent des types de soins qui semblent très éloignés les uns des autres ? Cette question entraîne trois interrogations emboitées qui f...

Cet ouvrage consacré à l'entretien de recherche avec des personnes ayant de difficultés de communication permet de « relancer » la question de l'utilité, de la scientificité et des effets de construction de la réalité de cette méthode aujourd'hui très largement employée dans de nombreuses disciplines. L'entretien est une situation particulière d'éc...

La prévalence du trouble de l’état de stress post-traumatique (ESPT) parmi les populations réfugiées victimes de torture et de traumatismes de guerre est une des plus élevées en psychotraumatologie. Cependant, parmi les études ayant permis de recommander la thérapie comportementale et cognitive centrée sur le trauma (TCC-CT) comme première ligne de...

Patients with right hemisphere damage (RHD) display subtle language and communication disorders, particularly at the level of discourse. Discourse comprehension requires inferences that extend beyond the literal meaning of sentences, as is the case of verbal humor. The aim of this study was to test the possibility to improve understanding of verbal...

To date no validated instrument in the French language exists to screen for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in survivors of torture and organized violence. The aim of this study is to adapt and validate the Harvard Trauma Questionnaire (HTQ) to this population. The adapted version was administered to 52 French-speaking torture survivors, origi...

The author discusses the role of Daniel Widlöcher in the debate on unity of psychology. He underlines the permanent action of Daniel Widlöcher for keeping this unity, in spite of chapels and allegiances. Through examples as empathy or different types of memory, he illustrates the particularity of Daniel Widlöcher for developing a comprehensive and...

The goal of this study is to describe an interaction sequence between a therapist and a patient. This sequence is extracted from a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapeutic session that was filmed and transcribed. The selected sequence meets a specific criterion: to observe and analyze verbal and non- verbal dialogue in a series of patient-ther...

The recovery of the self in schizophrenia The question of the course of schizophrenia disease, especially recovery, is of considerable interest in different clinical and social areas. We propose a qualitative study of the narratives told by patients relating their recovery process. The recovery of the self, all along the stages of the recovery conc...

We assessed whether re-nutrition and weight gain have an influence on comorbid depression and anxiety in patients hospitalised for chronic eating disorders (ED). Seventy-five inpatients agreed to participate by completing the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI-13), and the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory (STAI-Y) befor...

Cette recherche sur les états de stress post-traumatiques (ESPT) vise à permettre, par l'étude conjointe des schémas précoces inadaptés (SPI) et des stratégies de coping, l'élaboration de nouvelles techniques thérapeutiques axées sur la restructuration des croyances. En effet, l'intrication des SPI et des stratégies de coping pourrait entretenir le...

The concepts of remission and recovery applied to schizophrenia refer to different processes of the positive evolution of the trouble: A psychiatric one and the other one more psychological. In this paper, we aim to better understand and characterize the links between these two continuums of evolution. Our qualitative study is based on the narrativ...

Thought and language disorders in schizophrenia and schizotypy are thought to result from hemispheric dysfunction during semantic processing. Left hemisphere (LH) abnormalities are well established, but little is known about right hemisphere (RH) semantic processes. We explored hemispheric processing in 50 healthy volunteers assigned to high (h-SZT...

During hypnosis, the authors tested repeated weight-related, literal and metaphorical suggestions about the heaviness of the subjects' arms. The purpose was to determine if linguistically varied hypnotic suggestions produced significantly different motor reactions--involuntary pressure forces of the forearms--as assessed by a linguistic biomechanic...

Si tratta di una larga riflessione anche di tipo sperimentale sulla relazione tra i nuovi paradigmi della mente incorpata e il concetto di pesantezza.

O objetivo do nosso estudo é identificar diversas conceptualizações do corpo expressas em contextos da psicopatologia e literatura. Propomos uma categorização específica de sentenças literárias a partir da Teoria da Metáfora Conceitual (Lakoff e Johnson 1980, 1999) e a Teoria da Simulação do Contexto Limitado (Ritchie 2003, 2006, 2008). Com base no...

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The goal of our study is to identify several conceptualizations of the body expressed in the contexts of psychopathology and literature. We propose a specific categorization of literary sentences drawing on Conceptual Metaphor Theory (Lakoff and Johnson 1980; 1999) and Context-Limited Simulation Theory (Ritchie 2003; 200; 2008). Based on corpus dat...

In this paper we examined the influence of repetition of weight-related sentences on the involuntary pressure forces of the forearms, when in a relaxed state. These forces were involuntary oscillations, exerted by muscle movements of the breathing-cycle and muscle movements of the arm on force sensors. We constructed a linguistic bio-mechanical sys...

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Oncology is a domain where hypnosis has a role to play, since medical treatments are still not sufficient. Although the impact of many types of psychosocial intervention have been tested in cancer patients with disappointing results on survival, hypnosis has not yet been assessed using appropriate methodology. Surveys testing hypnosis that include...

In this paper we examined the influence of repetition of weight-related sentences on the involuntary pressure forces of the forearms, when in a relaxed state. These forces were involuntary oscillations, exerted by muscle movements of the breathing-cycle and muscle movements of the arm on force sensors. We constructed a linguistic bio-mechanical sys...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the vividness of visual imagery from three different sample groups: a contemporary dance group (n = 24), a group of modified state of consciousness experts (n = 24) and a group of students (n = 48). We argue that the mental imagery activity into low vigilance level and into a modified state of consciousness ha...

The aim of this article is to evaluate the vividness of visual imagery from three different sample groups: a contemporary dance group (n=24), a group of modified state of consciousness experts (n=24) and a group of students (n=48). We argue that the mental imagery activity into low vigilance level and into a modified state of consciousness has a cl...

Le teoria della metafora concettuale rivendica l’importanza dell’esperienza percettivo-motoria nella costruzione di differenti ragionamenti ed azioni, ma non s’interessa dell’importanza del segno gestuale nell’interazione. I nuovi orientamenti dei modelli psicoterapici centrati su corpo e linguaggio (Downing, 1995) non trovano né nella teoria di La...

Oncology is a domain of particular interest in chronobiology research, focusing the efforts of a wide range of scientists. A great deal of data concerning the association between biological rhythms and cancer is now available, associating genetics, cell biology, animal experimentation, epidemiology, and clinical research. Despite these efforts, lit...

La dépression est un trouble dont la prévalence, la charge de morbidité et le coût sont importants. Dans cette enquête, les résultats indiquent que plus d'une personne sur trois souffrant d'un épisode dépressif caractérisé (EDC) s'arrête de travailler à cause de ce problème. Les femmes sont deux fois plus touchées que les hommes par la dépression m...

In order to examine the nature of body image distortions, we studied their perceptual and idealised components using a video distortion technique to create photographs of dancers, anorexics and controls that made their bodies look larger. Each subject was then asked to adjust the photograph until it reflected her estimated and desired body size. Th...

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In the field of clinical psychology and psychotherapeutic techniques, patient and therapist utterances frequently include linguistic metaphors of the body. A metaphor is not only a stylistic device but also a tool for conceptualizing one's experience. In Freud's view, for example, the notion of the body as a “container” or “source” is one of the ba...

In the field of clinical psychology and psychotherapeutic techniques, patient and therapist utterances frequently include linguistic metaphors of the body.A metaphor is not only a stylistic device but also a tool for conceptualizing one’s experience. In Freud’s view, for example, the notion of the body as a “container” or “source” is one of the bas...

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