@article{ref1,
title="The elderly subject and social violence: The body as a factor in communication",
journal="Acta psychiatrica Belgica",
year="1992",
author="Tamburro, G. A. and Di Sciascio, G. and De Giglio, F.",
volume="92",
number="4",
pages="246-257",
abstract="The social inferiority of an elderly person stems from his physical inferiority--actual or alleged but always possible. And yet this &quot;inferior&quot; body is paradoxically hypertrophic: at first it masks the person, then takes up its space until it negates it. Hence, an elderly person is not only a body but a lonely body. In his relations with other people, his body becomes a receiver, a receptacle and a source of communication. Social violence underlies relations with elderly people: such violence may be deceptive, widespread and continuous or, on the other hand, manifest, episodic and conspicuous. In the first case it may be a way of assigning subalternate roles to them in relation to the efficiency expected of them or a way of mythologizing their condition as one of pseudo-happiness. In the second case is generally relates to assaults, thefts, bag-snatching, etc. In any case, however, communication with them entails violence: their body perceives this and reacts to it. This is why their body's language is violent: their body cries out, it is stunned and it is acted upon (even--and unavoidably--in relations with a therapist).<p /> <p>Language: fr</p>",
language="fr",
issn="0300-8967",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}