Neuropsychiatrie de l'Enfance et de l'Adolescence
Volume 49, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 532-540

Child psychiatrists confronted with new requests. The example of working with migrant parents and babies [Le psychiatre d'enfants confronté à de nouvelles demandes. L'exemple du travail parents migrants-bébés] (Article)

Moro M.R. , Roubaud L. , Vitry I.
  • a Professeur de psychiatrie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, service de psychopathologie de l'enfant et de l'adolescent, CHU Avicenne (AP-HP), 125 rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny cedex, France
  • b Psychiatre d'Enfants Et d'Adolescents, Service De Psychopathologie De l'Enfant Et De l'Adolescent, CHU Avicenne (AP-HP), 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny cedex, France
  • c Psychiatre d'Enfants Et d'Adolescents, Service De Psychopathologie De l'Enfant Et De l'Adolescent, CHU Avicenne (AP-HP), 125, rue de Stalingrad, 93009 Bobigny cedex, France

Abstract

Child and adolescent psychiatrists are confronted with requests ever-more diverse and complex out of a social context in crisis often marked by breaking-up, sometimes by violence and always by diversity. This diversity obliges us to change our positions, to become creative on a theoretic as well as on a technical level. The atypical character of these requests leads us to imagine new clinical positions which are more receptive to the exterior reafity and its breaking-up, to its violence, to its traumatic potential, and also to its capacity of support. It is thus at the same time a question of the intenorposition of the therapist as well as one about the setting to be constructed with the patient. To illustrate these new requests, this paper analyses the example of therapies with migrant parents and their babies. The authors present the results of a therapy-research project where they integrated anthropological elements belonging to the parents'culture into the setting to create a therapeutic alliance, as well as they used psychoanalytical elements in order to decode the individual sense attributed to the difficulties of early interaction. © 2001 Éditions scientifiques et médicales Elsevier SAS.

Author Keywords

Transcultural psychiatry Child and adolescent psychiatry New requests

Index Keywords

violence doctor patient relation cultural anthropology social problem Social Environment Review clinical practice social support theory psychotrauma cultural factor psychoanalysis child psychiatry psychotherapy human family migration parent
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DOI: 10.1016/S0222-9617(01)80068-4
ISSN: 02229617
Cited by: 1
Original Language: French