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Playing with Limits: Tobie Nathan's Evolving Paradigm in Ethnopsychiatry

Ellen Corin

McGill University

The specificity of the French contribution to ethnopsychiatry lies in its strong clinical focus and its psychoanalytic inspiration. Nathan's work is approached from the point of view of its evolution from a perspective centred on the exploration of frontiers between culture and psyche, and African traditional and Western psychoanalytic therapeutic theories, toward an emphasis on the role of logical constraints and traumatism within the therapeutic process. Nathan's evolving position towards psychoanalysis is also explored. Having underscored the importance of Nathan's work, the author discusses potential problems entailed by his illocutionary position within the clinical setting and by his explicit goal to reanchor immigrants within their traditional culture.

Key Words: cross-cultural clinical work • ethnopsychiatry • healing process • immigrants • logical operators

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 34, No. 3, 345-358 (1997)
DOI: 10.1177/136346159703400304
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