@article{ref1,
title="Expressions and enactment of the death wish in the very elderly: Challenges and ethical issues at stake",
journal="NPG Neurologie - Psychiatrie - Geriatrie",
year="2015",
author="Brossard, F. and Caron, R.",
volume="15",
number="87",
pages="178-183",
abstract="At the crossroads of various symptoms specific to the field of geriatric psychopathology, the death wish can take on various masks misleading the clinician to diverse nosography entities and causing a therapeutic impasse for care teams. The authors question the emergence of a death desire in the elderly in a clinical context that allows them to identify different phases along the path of a seriously ill patient, from the refusal of any treatment to the patient's death. In the light of the Freudian-Lacanian theory, they identify different mechanisms at work in the course of this process, revealing the specificity of the death desire among subjects confronted with certain death. The question of &quot;the help to die&quot; will be finally convened by the Freudian-Lacanian analysisof this clinical accompaniment. © 2014 Elsevier Masson SAS.<p /><p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="1627-4830",
doi="10.1016/j.npg.2014.11.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.npg.2014.11.003"
}