SLAÂ : enjeux psychiques de la mort annoncée. Réflexions et témoignages

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis is a neurodegenerative disease still incurable to this day. The diagnostic disclosure is thus delivered along with a systematic palliative care disclosure. The evolving handicap implies countless losses and revisions: psychic, relational, functional, social… for the sick person as well as their close ones. Life revolves around the “feasible leeway” left, or sometimes created, by the disease.