Relationship mode, addictions and social precarity

Mode relationnel, addictions et précarité sociale

Sophie Fierdepied (1) , Gesine Sturm (2) , Thierry Baubet (1)

1 UTRPP - Unité Transversale de Recherche Psychogenèse et Psychopathologie
2 UT2J - Université Toulouse - Jean Jaurès

This article is based on qualitative research in psychology that examines the relationship between experiences of social precarity, trauma, and borderline personality organization. The interview guidelines were based on the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), which includes a process-oriented assessment as well as a multi-model and multi-axial diagnosis. We used grounded theory (Glaser & Strauss, 1967) for the interpretation of our data while integrating aspects of the complementarist approach of G. Devereux. In 20 interviews with 10 different people, we found a relational mode with mistrust being central and insecure or unsafe attachment patterns. This helps us to better understand the meaning of addictive behaviour in this context: The nterviews show relationship patterns where distance is created in order to protect oneself, substituting human relationships by drug abuse (which still leaves an empty space) and attempted subjectivation. We also found an attempt to rebuild and stabilise identity (using an identity that covers the former), and to reconstruct the fragilised Moi-Peau (Anzieu, 1985), which has been weakened by early traumatic experiences.

Cet article est issu d'une recherche qualitative en psycho-logie qui interroge le lien entre vécu de précarité, traumas et fonc-tionnement limite. Nous avons conçu des entretiens de recherche en nous inspirant de l'Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), outil d'évaluation et de diagnostic multimodèle et mul-tiaxial. Nous nous sommes appuyée sur la grounded theory pour le traitement des données et sur la méthode complémentariste de G. Devereux pour l'analyse. Les données, issues de 20 entretiens réalisés auprès de 10 sujets, ont mis en évidence un mode rela-tionnel empreint de méfiance où la question de l'attachement est

Mots clés: complémentarisme; grounded theory; OPD-2; méthode qualitative; mode relationnel; modèle d’inconduite; Moi-Peau; subjectivation; précarité sociale; conduites addictives

Domaines: Psychologie

Sophie Fierdepied, Gesine Sturm, Thierry Baubet. Mode relationnel, addictions et précarité sociale . Psychotropes, 2014, 20 (4), pp.47-69. ⟨halshs-01352758⟩