ECTS

1st Specialization in Mental Health and Psychiatry

Anthropology and ethnopsychiatry

ECTS Credits	1
Number of Hours (h/year)	15
Teaching staff	ALCHAABANI, Souheil
Course Unit	Compulsory
Term	Quad. 1 and 2
Code	PARA-D_SPSY0016/1

Prerequisite	Lessons in anthropology and social sciences in the first and second GN
Aims and Objectives	This lecture aims at opening the pupil’s reflexion about transcultural approach of psychopathology and at introducing to anthropological psychiatry.
Description	Definition of anthropological psychiatry The origins of anthropological psychiatry: Cultural anthropology Psychoanalysis, Ethnopsychoanalysis, Ethnopsychiatry Phenomenology Structuralism Systemics Sociology of social representations Basic concepts: Illness: the building of a representation Nosography: cultural classifying of diseases representations Nosology: systemic organizing principle of diseases representations The origin of diseases Symbolic axiology: utilization of a traditional nosography Symbol and “diabol” : an view on the raising of psychosis The notion of symbolic and “diabolic” shifters: Psychopathology of migrant people. Ethnopsychiatry cure
Bibliography	Les références bibliographiques pour les différents contenus sont disponibles et actualisées au centre multimédia de la Haute Ecole de la Province de Liège André Vésale, Quai du Barbou, 2, Liège.
Teaching and Learning Methods	Lectures Interactive lessons
Assessment Methods	Oral examinations
Notes	In part
Language	French

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