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contact fuyant

English translation: interacts evasively

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French term or phrase:contact fuyant
English translation:interacts evasively
Entered by: Dareth Pray

01:58 Jan 16, 2018
French to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - Psychology / From an excerpt of case study on shared psychosis
French term or phrase: contact fuyant
This section is describing a man after his arrest. It is entitled, "Eléments cliniques" and it says "L’homme accusé a un contact fuyant avec des réponses défensives, plaquées et pauvres. [...] Une discordance idéo-affective et un émoussement des affects sont observés."

My instinct is telling me that it means "avoids eye contact," but I am not finding the term in any references, and I am not going to guess.

I am going to ask a few more questions for this same sentence as well, since the terms seem to be very specific psychiatric assessments.
Dareth Pray
United States
Local time: 20:54
interacts evasively
Explanation:
As others have already suggested "evasive", I hesitated about posting this answer. However I think that "contact" should be translated as "interaction", not "attitude".
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B D Finch
France
Local time: 05:54
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a un contact fuyant
interacts evasively


Explanation:
As others have already suggested "evasive", I hesitated about posting this answer. However I think that "contact" should be translated as "interaction", not "attitude".

B D Finch
France
Local time: 05:54
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Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 15
Grading comment
Great! Thanks

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Nikki Scott-Despaigne: "Evasive" is a nice for "fuyant" and "i/action" for "contact" as it can involve eye contact, body lang. and lan "Avoidant interaction" may work, as the ICD + DSM use "avoidant" for "pers. évitante" (av. pers. d/o). A trait here (not diag. of the d/order).
17 mins
  -> Thanks Nikki
agree  Victoria Britten
2 hrs
  -> Thanks Victoria
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