Lives Elsewhere - Migration and Psychic Malaise

This book offers English-speaking readers one of the best examples of continental European approaches to working psychologically with refugees and migrants, combining ethnopsychiatric elements with insights from systemic approaches and from the theory and practice of narrative psychotherapies.

List of contents

Series Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- The structure of migration trauma in ethno-systemic-narrative practice:initiation rites and fables -- Ethnopsychiatry, visions of the world, and medical paradigms -- Western psychotherapies adapted for migrants and ethnopsychotherapy -- Part II -- Psychotherapeutic practice with migrant families: the case of a young child traumatized by war -- The Child Sorcerer: the transmission of misfortune in a Kongo context. Description of an ethnopsychiatric treatment -- Armand and the “hole”: therapy with a family from Zaire

About the author

Natale Losi is a family psychotherapist, medical anthropologist and sociologist who has extensive professional experience working in various African countries, as well as various conflict and post-conflict societies such as Albania, Kosovo and Palestine. He is currently the Head of Psychosocial and Cultural Integration Unit at the Regional Mediterranean Mission of the International Organization for Migration, based in Rome. His numerous books include 'Psychosocial and Trauma Response in War-Torn Societies: The Case of Kosovo' (2000), 'Archives of Memory: Supporting Traumatized Communities through Narration and Remembrance' (2001) and 'Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise' (2006).

Summary

This book offers English-speaking readers one of the best examples of continental European approaches to working psychologically with refugees and migrants, combining ethnopsychiatric elements with insights from systemic approaches and from the theory and practice of narrative psychotherapies.

Product details

• Authors: Franceline James, LOSI, Natale Losi, Losi Natale, Saskia von Overbeck Ottino
• Assisted by: Brett Shapiro (Translation)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367325374
• ISBN: 978-0-367-32537-4
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: The International Series of Psychosocial Perspectives on Trauma, Displaced People & Political Violence
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / General, Psychotherapy, Migration, immigration & emigration, Migration, immigration and emigration, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples, Individual Psychotherapy