Robert Malet : a dermatologist’s viewpoint

The psychosomatic approach is something like the dancer’s split, stretching out to join, on the one hand, the medical approach, whose very foundation is the isolation and objectification of the symptom, and on the other hand, the subject, with his history, his fears and his sometimes complex demands. Using several clinical observations, we will try to show some particularities of this treatment in the adolescent.