Objets de l’exil, objets de soins
Respectively a psychiatric nurse and an anthropologist, we work within a multidisciplinary group of therapists. We use a complementary approach, as described by Georges Devereux, combining the psychological and the anthropological approach of the subject with refugee or asylum-seeker patients suf...
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| description | Respectively a psychiatric nurse and an anthropologist, we work within a multidisciplinary
group of therapists. We use a complementary approach, as described by Georges Devereux,
combining the psychological and the anthropological approach of the subject with refugee
or asylum-seeker patients suffering from multiple trauma related to exile. In a state of great
vulnerability, separated from their loved ones, these people suffer from social isolation and
psychological disorganisation. The aim of our work is to lead them to psychological self-reliance.
Therefore, we try, by forging a bond, to reorganise their thoughts and bring back the
vital feeling of internal security. During these sessions, while we examine the connections
between the patient and their environment, their relatives and their culture, a variety of objects
may emerge. Either they are just mentioned through memories or dreams, or they are
presented in a more concrete way, shown on a photo, displayed in consultation or offered
to therapists as a gift. Jewellery, clothes, photographs, candles, cakes... All of these objects
carry meaningful life stories, memories and are full of emotion. We look at them closely in
order to work with the patients. Through a few clinical examples, we wish to share here the
unique stories of some of these objects that have come from far away, either companions of
exile or resilience tools in the host country, which have become therapeutic levers during
transcultural consultations. Therefore, we support the idea that listening to people telling
the life of their objects and the links they forge, receiving their emotions, contributes to the
co-construction of their psychic life and their social existence. Because the object shows the
strength of the social cohesion and is a landmark, it allows the patient to consider a future.
The object, anchored in the past, is used during transcultural consultations as a therapeutic
lever and becomes a tool for building a future. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-176e4a72de804119bb2fd8d14bdae5022022-12-22T04:32:34ZdeuKarl Franzens-Universität GrazMobile Culture Studies. The Journal2413-91812021-09-0171354210.25364/08.7:2021.1.3Objets de l’exil, objets de soinsThomas, CatherineLevillayer, LaureRespectively a psychiatric nurse and an anthropologist, we work within a multidisciplinary group of therapists. We use a complementary approach, as described by Georges Devereux, combining the psychological and the anthropological approach of the subject with refugee or asylum-seeker patients suffering from multiple trauma related to exile. In a state of great vulnerability, separated from their loved ones, these people suffer from social isolation and psychological disorganisation. The aim of our work is to lead them to psychological self-reliance. Therefore, we try, by forging a bond, to reorganise their thoughts and bring back the vital feeling of internal security. During these sessions, while we examine the connections between the patient and their environment, their relatives and their culture, a variety of objects may emerge. Either they are just mentioned through memories or dreams, or they are presented in a more concrete way, shown on a photo, displayed in consultation or offered to therapists as a gift. Jewellery, clothes, photographs, candles, cakes... All of these objects carry meaningful life stories, memories and are full of emotion. We look at them closely in order to work with the patients. Through a few clinical examples, we wish to share here the unique stories of some of these objects that have come from far away, either companions of exile or resilience tools in the host country, which have become therapeutic levers during transcultural consultations. Therefore, we support the idea that listening to people telling the life of their objects and the links they forge, receiving their emotions, contributes to the co-construction of their psychic life and their social existence. Because the object shows the strength of the social cohesion and is a landmark, it allows the patient to consider a future. The object, anchored in the past, is used during transcultural consultations as a therapeutic lever and becomes a tool for building a future.https://unipub.uni-graz.at/mcsj/periodical/titleinfo/8083277devereuxpsychotraumatranscultural consultationobjects of exiltherapeutic leversresilience |
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