Vous consultezL’incroyable dans la clinique interculturelle : à propos d’un cas d’apparition chez une adolescente congolaise

The incredible in transcultural clinics: a case of apparition in a Congolese adolescent
Over the last twenty years or so, self-harm has become a behaviour that is frequently targeted in psychiatric clinics for adolescents. The adolescents say that they cut themselves to gain relief and to evacuate pain by materializing it in physical and visible sufferings. With the support of a third person – the clinician –, self-harming adolescents are able to attach words and meaning to their acts. In this paper we will explore the way in which the meaning of the act affects the adolescents’psychic development and how it enable them to reconstruct the pubescent and the infantile through the process of subjectivation.

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