Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise

by Natale Losi

Overview

This book offers English-speaking readers one of the best examples of continental European approaches to working psychologically with refugees and migrants, combining ethnopsychiatric elements with insights from systemic approaches and from the theory and practice of narrative psychotherapies.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780429915741
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/13/2018
Series:	The International Series of Psychosocial Perspectives on Trauma, Displaced People & Political Violence
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	252
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Natale Losi is a family psychotherapist, medical anthropologist and sociologist who has extensive professional experience working in various African countries, as well as various conflict and post-conflict societies such as Albania, Kosovo and Palestine. He is currently the Head of Psychosocial and Cultural Integration Unit at the Regional Mediterranean Mission of the International Organization for Migration, based in Rome. His numerous books include 'Psychosocial and Trauma Response in War-Torn Societies: The Case of Kosovo' (2000), 'Archives of Memory: Supporting Traumatized Communities through Narration and Remembrance' (2001) and 'Lives Elsewhere: Migration and Psychic Malaise' (2006).

Table of Contents

Series Editor’s Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I -- The structure of migration trauma in ethno-systemic-narrative practice:initiation rites and fables -- Ethnopsychiatry, visions of the world, and medical paradigms -- Western psychotherapies adapted for migrants and ethnopsychotherapy -- Part II -- Psychotherapeutic practice with migrant families: the case of a young child traumatized by war -- The Child Sorcerer: the transmission of misfortune in a Kongo context. Description of an ethnopsychiatric treatment -- Armand and the “hole”: therapy with a family from Zaire

Editorial Reviews

"This comprehensive work describes the psychotherapeutic practices in contemporary Europe that have chosen to treat immigrant patients with real interest and respect. Anyone seeking an intimate understanding of psychopathology, trauma and immigration, will find Lives Elsewhere an indispensable book."

Nathalie Zajde

"This book is a great tool for those professionals who work with people from different cultures and want to learn how to look at the process of migration in a positive and enriching perspective. An ethno-systemic-narrative approach and a variety of therapeutic interventions are well described in this book as a way to deal with the mental health and the social and family changes of the migrant in the new land."

Maurizio Andolfi

"This book is a great tool for those professionals who work with people from different cultures and want to learn how to look at the process of migration in a positive and enriching perspective. An ethno-systemic-narrative approach and a variety of therapeutic interventions are well described in this book as a way to deal with the mental health and the social and family changes of the migrant in the new land."

"This comprehensive work describes the psychotherapeutic practices in contemporary Europe that have chosen to treat immigrant patients with real interest and respect. Anyone seeking an intimate understanding of psychopathology, trauma and immigration, will find Lives Elsewhere an indispensable book."

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