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The Fish Floating Attention
Seoul National University (Bundang Hospital), Seoul, Republic of Korea
Department of Medicine, University Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, France
International Society of Multidisciplinary Psychoanalysis, Geneva, Switzerland
Physicist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
- 1 Seoul National University (Bundang Hospital), Seoul, Republic of Korea
- 2 Department of Medicine, University Grenoble Alpes, La Tronche, France
- 3 International Society of Multidisciplinary Psychoanalysis, Geneva, Switzerland
- 4 Physicist at CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Psychology·Volume 11 (2020)·Pages 1613–1627·Published 13 November 2020·DOI10.4236/psych.2020.1111102
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Abstract
In this paper , we discuss the possibility to consider fish for pet therapy. After describing the known effects of a fish tank on patient’s stress levels, we present the psychoanalytic implications of fish-therapy. We then describe some mythological representations of the fish in history and the concept illness and healing from the point of view of chaotic attractors and cellular automaton. We illustrate the practical applications of fish pet-therapy. We conclude with some considerations on how this technique could be inserted in the psychoanalytic practice.
KeywordsPet-TherapyZootherapyFishFish-TankJungian PsychoanalysisCellular AutomatonChaotic Attractors
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