Aims
- To continue and to complete the course SEX 2570 Familial, conjugal and sexual therapies, by applying the same process to an enlarged field which analyses the clinical representations and practices.
- In this aim, to go further into the themes and components having a "universal" character drawn in the clinics. To consider the psycho-clinical approaches of the immigrant populations, the data from clinical transcultural psychology, from ethnography of the traditional healing practices and from ethnopsychiatry.
- To contribute in this way to the construction of a clinical anthropology with prospective aiming.
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Main themes
- Reformulation of the model (of the clinical field) and of the tool of analysis (model with 6 criteria), by completing it (model of the representations of the causalities).
- Identification of the actual scholar and traditional discourses : social and cultural anthropology, traditional knowledge and ethnosciences, ethnopsychiatry, clinical anthropology (medical, psychiatric, psychological, psychanalytic) and their relations with an anthropology of the development and prospective.
- Study of the main themes in the above discourse : " otherness " exotic, "cultural" personality and "ethnical" identity ; religion, beliefs, myths and rites, therapeutical efficiency (real, imaginary and symbolic) ; influence, suggestion and transfers ; divination, second sight, premonition, shamanism, trance, possession, sorcery, ...
- Study of the systems of representations and of the clinical practices in the great cultural worlds : parallel medicines and parapsychological practice, sorcery and dyspossessions in the West ; the constants and et variants of shamanism in Asia and in America ; the traditional diseasesand healers of the Andes ; the fetishist practices and the " new prophetic churches in Africa ; the healing arabo-muslim practices (koranic and from the worship of the saints) in Europe and in the Maghreb ; the practices of the doctors and diviners in the bön, buddhist and tantric traditions in central Asia.
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Content and teaching methods
Interactive seminar. All the students have to critically identify one of the themes or clinical systems evoked, applying to this analytical tool, writing a documented text to transmit, to present verbally and to thrash it out.
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Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)
Course SEX 2570 Familial, conjugal and sexual therapies
Evaluation based on the students active participation : their text, their verbal presentation and their interventions in the débats.
Recommended readings :
Affergan Fr (dir.), Construire le savoir anthropologique, PUF, Paris, 1999
Devereux G., Essais d'ethnopsychiatrie générale (1970), Gallimard, Paris, 1977 ; Ethnopsychanalyse com-plémentariste (1972), Flammarion, Paris, 1985 ; De l'angoisse à la méthode, Flammarion, Paris, 1980 ; Au-bier, Paris, 1994.
Divers auteurs , " Anthropologie psychanalytique ", L'Homme , Revue française d'Anthropologie, n° 149, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences sociales, Paris, 1999 ;
Laplantine Fr., Clefs pour l'anthropologie, Coll. Clefs, Seghers, Pars, 1987 ; Anthropologie de la maladie. Etude ethnologique des systèmes de représentations étiologiques et thérapeutiques dans la société occiden-tale contemporaine, Payot, Paris, 1986, 1992.
Nathan T., La folie des autres : traité d'ethnopsychiatrie clinique, Dunod, Paris, 1986 ; Le sperme du dia-ble : éléments d'ethnopsychiatrie, PUF, Paries, 1988 ; L'influence qui guérit, Ed. Odile Jacob, Paris, 1995.
Steichen R., " L'identité du sujet : sa construction et ses nominations ", in Steichen R. et Servais P. (dir.), Individu, personne, sujet ? Identification et identités dans les familles, Ed. Academia-Bruylant, LLN, 1997, 11-46 ; " Figures de l'altérité : les autres et l'Autre ", in Presvelou C. et Steichen R. (dir.), Le Familier et l'étranger : dialectiques de l'accueil et du rejet, Ed. Academia-Bruylant, LLN, 1998, 39-57.
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Other credits in programs
ANTR3DS
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Diplôme d'études spécialisées en anthropologie
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SEX21
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Première licence en sciences de la famille et de la sexualité
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(2 credits)
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SEX22
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Deuxième licence en sciences de la famille et de la sexualité
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(3.5 credits)
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