Réactions psychologiques à l'annonce d'un diagnostic de maladie grave: spécificités de la SLA

ALS patient's do not have any curative perspective thus they will try “to escape” using different strategies the traumatic reality, that they cannot integrate and control. The physician has to prove his understanding and empathy facing these psychological reactions that could become of pathological appearance. The physician has to progressively bring the patient to consult the clinical psychologist; however he has not to forget that he is equally responsible about the way the patient go though his disease.