by Tobie Nathan · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782738103093
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«Psychanalyse païenne» is the ethnopsychology essay by Tobie Nathan, published by Editions Odile Jacob in paperback (251 pages, in French).
Tobie Nathan analyses the therapeutic practices of traditional societies —talismans, rites, sacrifices— as non-discursive logic transmitted through objects and gestures. Understanding it is key to treating migrant patients whose symptoms retain their cultural coherence. The essay connects ethnopsychology and psychoanalysis to reinterpret myths and beliefs.
Published in 1995, it is part of the Opus collection (no. 11) and includes bibliographical references.
A work of interest to readers of cultural psychology, ethnology and psychoanalysis.
Tobie Nathan is is a French psychologist, professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Paris-VIII, diplomat, and writer. He is a specialist in the field of ethnopsychiatry.
