Nathan's Ethnopsychoanalytic Therapy: Characteristics, Discoveries and Challenges to Western Psychotherapy

Streit, Ursula

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“…Cultural psychiatry in France has been strongly influenced by a psychoanalytic tradition that tends to situate problems in the psyche and thus does not directly challenge the state's position on culture (51). The ethnopsychoanalytic work of Tobie Nathan focuses on the symbolic meaning of traditional healing practices and on formal analogies with psychotherapy (52)(53)(54). Consultations with a specialized ethnopsychiatric team create a transitional space where the clinician's interventions mediate the collective symbolic worlds ofthe immigrant's country of origin and of France (55).…”

Section: Models Of Mental Health Care For Multicultural Societiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Cultural Psychiatry: An International Perspective

2000

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Cultural psychiatry has evolved along 3 lines: 1) cross-cultural comparative studies of psychiatric disorders and traditional healing; 2) efforts to respond to the mental health needs of culturally diverse populations that include indigenous peoples, immigrants, and refugees; and 3) the ethnographic study of psychiatry itself as the product of a specific cultural history. These studies make it clear that culture is fundamental both to the causes and course of psychopathology and also to the effectiveness of systems of healing. The provision of mental health services in multicultural societies has followed different models that reflect their specific histories of migration and ideologies of citizenship. Globalization has influenced psychiatry through socioeconomic effects on the prevalence and course of mental disorders, changing notions of ethnocultural identity, and the production of psychiatric knowledge. A cultural perspective can help clinicians and researchers become aware of the hidden assumptions and limitations of current psychiatric theory and practice and can identify new approaches appropriate for treating the increasingly diverse populations seen in psychiatric services around the world.

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Section: Models Of Mental Health Care For Multicultural Societiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Future of Cultural Psychiatry: An International Perspective

2000

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“…17 Nathan also points out, according to Streit, the importance of the use of the patient’s mother tongue and the use of traditional etiological theories as well as the use of a group setting which is consistent with a sociocentric conception of the person and cosmology, contributing to plural explanatory models. 21 …”

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Culture‐bound syndrome and a culturally sensitive approach: From a viewpoint of medical anthropology

Shimoji

Miyakawa

2000

Psychiatry Clin Neurosci

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Some aspects of the culture-bound syndrome are presented for discussion. From the psychiatric and medical anthropological viewpoints, kamidaari is described as an initiatory illness for seeing a shaman, and focus on clinical realities developing between different therapeutic subcultures in the same culture and the complementary practices of two epistemological ones, namely, the shamanistic and modern psychiatric system in the shamanistic climate. It is suggested that the culture-bound syndrome that reflects cultural influences on disease patterns and renders them difficult to place in a universal classificatory system should be seen as a vernacular bricolage or as tactics used by people within the web of their own local culture of origin. Therapists who treat patients in a cross-epistemological milieu should be aware of the subculturalepistemological issues that may affect the clinical process. It should be recognized that, depending on the nature of a particular psychiatric crisis, the clinical encounter is straddling the boundaries of multiple clinical realities. At every stage in the clinical field, there is an intersection, consonance, or interruption of rejoinders in the open dialog by all those engaged in the clinical time. Aspects of climatic, culturally sensitive psychotherapy will be described, and the concept of the culture-bound syndrome will be reconsidered. Our approach could be seen as 'situation-and fudo-bound'.

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“…The influx of African immigrants into France since the 1960s has generated a larger movement in culturally sensitive mental health care in which Marie-Cécile is an active participant. Her respect for the individual's efforts to navigate a successful path between the demands of the contemporary world and the demands of tradition contrasts with the neo-traditionalism characteristic of Tobi Nathan's prominent practice at the Centre Georges Devereux (Bidima, 2000;Corin, 1997;Freeman, 1997;Streit, 1997). The Ortigues' consistent emphasis on the demanding, desiring, or questioning individual prevents their text from sliding into the objectifying abstractions of ethnic type or national character, and also gives them purchase against the pull of neo-traditionalism.…”

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L’Oedipe Africain, A Retrospective

Bullard

2005

Transcult Psychiatry

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L'Oedipe Africain is a vital text from the early years of postcolonialism and transcultural psychiatry. Psychologist Marie-Cécile Ortigues and her philosopher husband, Edmond Ortigues produced this study after 4 years of clinical work (from 1962 to 1966) at the Fann Hospital in Dakar, Senegal. These were years of intense creativity at Fann, as Dr Henri Collomb set in motion a series of innovations that transformed a classical asylum into an open-door, culturally sensitive therapeutic center. L'Oedipe Africain confronts the transcultural project in the early post-colonial era with such candor and insight that it continues to speak to the profession today. The discussion of transference in situations of racial and cultural difference, and the theorizing of the cultural and universal dimensions to the psyche, emerge as enduring contributions of this text. The assumptions about history, tradition and modernity, and the gloss on female patients prove less durable.

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Nathan's Ethnopsychoanalytic Therapy: Characteristics, Discoveries and Challenges to Western Psychotherapy

Cited by 13 publications

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The Future of Cultural Psychiatry: An International Perspective

The Future of Cultural Psychiatry: An International Perspective

Culture‐bound syndrome and a culturally sensitive approach: From a viewpoint of medical anthropology

L’Oedipe Africain, A Retrospective

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