Victor, « l’enfant des vieux » de l’île de Maré (Nouvelle-Calédonie)
Abstracts
« The elder’s child » is an etiologic category which as a psychiatric nosography owns specific features. On the Mare island (Loyalty archipelago), the relations of the psychologist with Victor’s family, the polyhandicaped elder child, show cultural and anthropological aspects driving the clinician toward the underlying social and subjective meaning. Psychological and anthropological aspects are complementary within a transcultural approach where investigating cultural items, social organisation and cosmogony are part of the clinical interaction and a strong tool for therapeutic alliance.
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ancestralité, clan, clinique transculturelle, divinité, enfant, entretien familial, handicapéReferences
Bibliographical reference
Yoram Mouchenik, “Victor, « l’enfant des vieux » de l’île de Maré (Nouvelle-Calédonie)”, Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 116 | 2003, 53-64.
Electronic reference
Yoram Mouchenik, “Victor, « l’enfant des vieux » de l’île de Maré (Nouvelle-Calédonie)”, Journal de la Société des Océanistes [Online], 116 | Année 2003-1, Online since 26 May 2008, connection on 29 March 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/jso/1182; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/jso.1182
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