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Tema

No. 2 (2020)

Ethnopsychiatric and psychoanalytic digressions on the clinic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3280/gruoa2-2020oa12579
Submitted
settembre 22, 2021
Published
2021-10-12

Abstract

We propose a second confrontation with the participants in the Research that wants to investigate possible integrations and epistemological contaminations on the understanding of migratory phenomena and on the taking care of migrants. In particular, in this section we want to investigate the concept of “clinic” from a psychoanalytic, ethnopsychiatric and operational psychoanalysis perspective. The clinic brings people together, forcing us to come to terms with our cultural prejudices. It enables us to enter into a relationship with the other, an other-than-self that inevitably refers to foreign, disturbing and uncanny aspects in the other and in ourselves. However, it also allows us to observe situations, for example to enucleate gender differences, i.e. how males and females live the migration experience differently. Looking at the clinic we can see how migration has to do with family history, with transgenerational, with expectations and sometimes with traumatic aspects deposited in the generations by the ancestors.

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