Psychiatrie de l'Enfant
Volume 59, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 5-47

Robinson, the silences of the cartographer. Monograph of a child presenting secondary mutism in a migrant family from the Ivory Coast [Robinson, les silences du cartographe. Monographie d'un enfant présentant un mutisme secondaire dans une famille migrante originaire de Côte d'Ivoire] (Review)

Rizzi A.T. , Bouaziz N. , Maley S. , Simon A. , Claret A. , Sebbag E. , Moro M.R.
  • a Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France
  • b Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France
  • c Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France
  • d Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France
  • e Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France
  • f Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France
  • g Groupe Transculturel, Maison de Solenn, Maison des Adolescents (MDA), AP-HP Hôpital Cochin, 97, boulevard Port Royal, Paris, 75014, France

Abstract

Through this monograph of a child of migrant parents who presents secondary mutism, the authors propose an original perspective on the treatment of such « singular » children. Etiologico-cultural, biomedical or psychopathological theories give a meaning to the singularity of these children. The transcultural consultation offers a space where all these different dimensions weave themselves together in the co-construction of a shared meaning, allowing us to better accompany the singularity of children « from afar ». In a groupal situation, it is difficult for any child to speak. The transcultural set-up offers the child the possibility to express himself with the help of a cotherapist who accompanies him in play, particularly through drawing. Drawing, as a mediating object, lets us observe the evolution of the child's construction of his imaginary realm while he is simultaneously being nourished by the words spoken during the sessions. Thus, this treatment made it possible to accompany Robinson in his discovery of the world as is shown in his drawings of maps. © Presses Universitaires de France. Tous droits réservés pour tous pays.

Author Keywords

Second generation migrants Drawing Secondary mutism Guérés Singular child Interbreeding Vulnerability Ivory coast child Ethnopsychoanalysis Transcultural

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Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84973278410&doi=10.3917%2fpsye.591.0005&partnerID=40&md5=183ccdf02dd5ba424a8f04339a9805e5
DOI: 10.3917/psye.591.0005
ISSN: 0079726X
Cited by: 2
Original Language: French