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The Elder's Child of Maré Island, New Caledonia

Yoram Mouchenik

University Paris XIII, France, yoram.mouchenik{at}free.fr

On Maré Island in New Caledonia `the elder's child' is an etiologic category with its own specific features. This article describes the work of a clinical psychologist with the family of a polyhandicapped child described as `the elder's child.' Psychological and ethnographic perspectives provide complementary approaches to investigating cultural meanings, social organization and cosmogony, which all influence clinical interaction with the family and provides tools for developing a therapeutic alliance.

Key Words: ancestrality • clan • disabled child • divinity • family interview • New Caledonia • Pacific Islands

Transcultural Psychiatry, Vol. 44, No. 1, 136-156 (2007)
DOI: 10.1177/1363461507074982
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