Rivista di Psicologia dell'Emergenza e dell'Assistenza Umanitaria (Jun 2015)
Radici e ali Esperienze di una psicoterapeuta transculturale
Abstract
The book presented here (Cento M., Radici e ali. Esperienze di una psicoterapeuta transculturale , L'Harmattan Italia, Torino, 2015) consists in the first part in some theoretical reflections, that are inscribed within the ethnopsychological and the French transcultural psychology theoretical and methodological frameworks. Starting from this model, the author explores the subject of the mutual enrichment between the Person Centered Approach and the French Transcultural Psychiatry, and retraces the thought of Michele Risso, an Italian psychiatrist who pioneered the trans-cultural studies. Then, we enter into a specific context of migration such as that of Cuneo, illustrating a research conducted by the author with Moroccan families, exploring transformations in the new context of migration. The theoretical grounding is designed in the text as a “vertical travel”, which underlies at the same time a grounding identity path of the author. The “vertical travel” echoed the possibility of an “horizontal travel”. This one brings to “spread the wings” to meet people from other cultures, both by the psychotherapeutic listening of migrants and through the encounter with indigenous populations, decentralizing oneself through the journey. The second and third parts of the text enter into the lively narration of such meetings and geographic travel, and into the experience of African dance as a vehicle of cultural mix. In this article, we focus on the theoretical part of the book and on a research conducted in the context of Cuneo with the Moroccan families.
