Ethnopsychiatrie : la culture au service de la santé - article ; n°187 ; vol.47, pg 557-563

Antonio Mourãocavalcante

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Tiers-Monde - Année 2006 - Volume 47 - Numéro 187 - Pages 557-563
Antonio Mourâo Cavalcante - Ethnopsychiatry: culture comes to the aid of health.
The Author takes a case history as a basis for developing a discussion where he emphasizes the psychiatric and cultural aspects of a situation. This is a typical ethnopsychiatric approach, which goes back to the work of Georges Devereux and Tobie Nathan. The psychiatric elements the case presents suggest a depression. The cultural aspects, closely linked to the realities of life in the Nordeste region of Brazil, reflect the world of rural traditional, steeped in religious beliefs and struggles for power. The scenario is typical of ancient Brazil which, through the aging patient, shows the decline, even the progressive disappearance, of that world, now suffused with modernity and social pluralism.
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Source : Persée ; Ministère de la jeunesse, de l’éducation nationale et de la recherche, Direction de l’enseignement supérieur, Sous-direction des bibliothèques et de la documentation.

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• Sociologie, société et politique

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• Publié par: TIERS-MONDE
• Publié le: 01 janvier 2006
• Nombre de lectures: 16
• Langue: Français

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Antonio Mourão Cavalcante

Gilles Chertier

Ethnopsychiatrie : la culture au service de la santé

In: Tiers-Monde. 2006, tome 47 n°187. pp. 557-563.

Abstract

Antonio Mourâo Cavalcante - Ethnopsychiatry: culture comes to the aid of health.

The Author takes a case history as a basis for developing a discussion where he emphasizes the psychiatric and cultural aspects

of a situation. This is a typical ethnopsychiatric approach, which goes back to the work of Georges Devereux and Tobie Nathan.

The psychiatric elements the case presents suggest a depression. The cultural aspects, closely linked to the realities of life in the

Nordeste region of Brazil, reflect the world of rural traditional, steeped in religious beliefs and struggles for power. The scenario is

typical of ancient Brazil which, through the aging patient, shows the decline, even the progressive disappearance, of that world,

now suffused with modernity and social pluralism.

Citer ce document / Cite this document :

Mourão Cavalcante Antonio, Chertier Gilles. Ethnopsychiatrie : la culture au service de la santé. In: Tiers-Monde. 2006, tome 47

n°187. pp. 557-563.

doi : 10.3406/tiers.2006.5670

http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/tiers_1293-8882_2006_num_47_187_5670