Immigration and Mental Health: the Suffering of Migrants and the Encounter of Symbolic Meanings
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https://doi.org/10.25752/psi.6051Keywords:
migration, health, difference, interdisciplinary dialogue, inter-cultural the- rapies, silence, human comunication, meaning, psychoanalysis, affects, unconciousAbstract
Drawing from my experience as an anthropologist working at the “Consulta do Migrante” at Hospital Miguel Bombarda in Lisbon, this text proposes a short reflection on the necessary dialogue between different fields of knowledge and different forms of relation to the Other, in a clinical setting. Problematizing the encounter with difference in an institutionalized service such as a hospital, the aim is to show the richness of the complex reality implicit in such an encounter between migrants and established health services.
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