Sandrine LETRECHER

My research activity currently takes place within the Laboratoire de Psychologie Caen-Normandie (LPCN EA7452) from a dual psychodynamic and anthropological perspective.

My research focuses on vulnerability in all its forms. It concerns not only patients, but also their families and healthcare teams. They focus on the clinical mechanisms that can remedy these vulnerabilizing processes.

They are particularly concerned with the subjective incidences (patients, families, carers) of going through serious illness, but also of its contemporary management modalities at all ages of life. I have, however, been able to explore other contexts of vulnerability, in particular that of social precariousness and psychic precariousness.

My interest also focuses on care pathways, mediations and innovative therapeutic devices in relation to the institution where they are deployed (institutional analysis).

These are nurtured by interdisciplinarity between medicine and the Humanities and Social Sciences, and a strong grounding in healthcare institutions.

The aim is to account for the way in which, in our contemporary world, the intersection operates between illness conceived in its biological dimension (disease), marked by scientific thought, and its (inter-)subjective (illness), social and cultural dimensions (sickness).