Lives Elsewhere Migration and Psychic Malaise

Born from the author's desire to write a clear and simple account of complex material based on ethnopsychotherapy and migrations, this book aims to clarify some key questions, rather than serve as a definitive text. It will be of interest to ethnopsychotherapists, to those working with refugees...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Losi, Natale, author (author), James, Franceline (-), Overbeck Ottino Saskia von, Shapiro, Brett
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [London] : Karnac 2006.
Boca Raton, FL : [2018].
Edition:First edition
Series:International series of psychosocial perspectives on trauma, displaced people, and political violence.
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009798291606719
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Half Title
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Table of Contents
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS
  • SERIES EDITOR'S FOREWORD
  • PREFACE
  • Introduction
  • PART I
  • 1: The structure of migration trauma in ethno-systemic-narrative practice: initiation rites and fables
  • 2: Ethnopsychiatry, visions of the world, and medical paradigms
  • 3: Western psychotherapies adapted for migrants and ethnopsychotherapy
  • PART II
  • 4: Psychotherapeutic practice with migrant families: the case of a young child traumatized by war
  • 5: The Child Sorcerer: the transmission of misfortune in a Kongo context. Description of an ethnopsychiatric treatment
  • 6: Armand and the "hole": therapy with a family from Zaire
  • REFERENCES
  • SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX.