A contemporary reflection from dilaogues between exiles and a psychoanalyst, France, the Caribbean and Africa.

How today think the psychic care with patients marked by the disruption of their social and cultural references? This is the red thread that runs through the last work dOliver Douville, Figures of the other, for a clinical anthropology, who was born Dunod in the collection "psyches".
This book presents the reader with at least two figures: Training moon, traces the story, the other, pragmatic, lights and details of clinical practice. So it caters to both students and researchers quaux field professionals, beginners or experts.
Olivier Douville is a psychoanalyst. Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and is a member of the Research Centre Laboratory in Psychoanalysis, Medicine and Society of the University Paris-Diderot. He is also member of the Association of French anthropologists and works in Leps City Evrard in 93.
This is his long experience Hospitality, daccompagnement and care with subjects in exile and their children, and commitment in West Africa with minors wandering and in danger in the streets are the main sources of inspiration for his book.
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Today the consultations to migrants have increased. Most of them have more allocated for men and women marked by the accumulation of violence suffered and cultural ruptures such quon not be reduced to a single typical migration profile. Exit inhospitable soils, disrespectful of human rights, and violent behaviors are now rampant and that current migration to Europe or the New World is the fact women going in that direction. Also any univocal reading lexil reducing this experience to trauma or a net loss nest now nothing else quune obsolete dramatization. The migrant, certainly, but also refugee, who still carries the dignity of a left cultural world and the suffering of the debacle that political violence has inflicted on its social and cultural coherence, the woman giving birth in the ground Dexil , the teenager and the child migrants refusing quon considered a "traditional" about: that a range of people, destinies and subjectivities who met the analyst Olivier Douville.
Human book, deep, well written, well educated too. Useful to the student and Field Operations