[Psychological aspects of awakening from severe brain injuries: a theoretical approach].

Abstract

As they take care of brain injured patients from coma to socioprofessional return, the authors suggest a psychopathological pattern of coma and awareness. Psychoanalytics concepts of need, request, wish, object a, fantasy and "Jouissance" allows reflexion on psychic events of awareness and suggest the way of taking care of these patients. Recovery from brain injury combines neurological recovering with nursing people's wish and questions again about the peculiar structure of the human being.