Attitudes corporelles et relations spatiales dans la relation médecin-malade

摘要

The interpersonal approach, especially the physician-patient relationship, involves spatial aspects which are too often neglected. The physician’s location in relation to the patient (above or facing him or at his side) and his distance (very close, near or far away) arouses unconscious reactions and primordial reflexes; some of them can have an influence on the examination (raised muscular tone or blood pressure for example). E. T. Hall uses the term ‘proxemics’ to describe this branch of psychology which has a practical bearing on med