European and african psychopathology. What differences express the same subjectivity

Abstract

This presentation will be introduced by the different disease conceptions between Europe and West African cultures.The classical assumption of universality of neurological substrate will be discuss in confront with cultural relativist perspectives going back to nosology.Some questions will be adress in the fields of compared subjectivity and phenomenology.Some final remarks about the importance of Ethno-psychiatry will be done.