Le malheur contagieux

Study of an educational institution taking action in order to give psychological assistance to students after the suicide of a classmate revealed how the image of a victim was propagated, transforming a personal tragedy into a collective drama following an epidemic model. The officials of this institution, despite their divergent points of view and the fact that some supported this model unreservedly and others called it into question, acted together to reproduce this epidemic schema of psychic trauma

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