Know the role and significance of cultural factors in the genesis and manifestation of mental illnesses and their participation in the development of therapeutic processes. Acquire specific rehabilitation skills for functional prevention and recovery in multiethnic contexts, taking into account cultural differences and personal and collective history in using methodologies, acquiring techniques and appropriate relational approaches. Obtain general notions about the phenomenology of aging in its individual and social aspects and on the main characteristics of the elderly. Acquire knowledge and skills on specific individual and / or group rehabilitative planning capabilities and operational abilities in different contexts related to the effects of psycho-geriatric disorder on the individual, family and society.
Understand how culture not only condition the symptoms of many illnesses, but also how suffering (or psychic disorder itself) is represented,
Lectures, with extensive use of clinical cases.
Definition and meaning of culture. Patoplastic effect of culture. Traditional Treatments. Several etiological explanations of the diseases. Comparisons between different forms of thought. Demonstration of the presence in Western culture of traditional treatments. Tarantism and de Martino lesson. Evolution of Western thought. Coppo and Nathan studies. Cultural modification of the concept of mental illness. Individualistic psychology compared with collectivist psychology. Culturally determined syndromes. Anorexia seen as culturally determined disease. Psychological resuscitation of the immigration and integration process.
Giberti e Rossi, "Manuale di Psichiatria", Piccin editore, Padova, 2006
Piero Coppo, "Tra psiche e cultura. Elementi di Etnopsichiatria", Bollati Boringhieri, To, 2003
Ernesti De Martino, "La terra del rimorso", NET ed., Milano, 2002
Ricevimento: By appointment
STEFANIA VAGNOZZI (President)
SERGIO CALABRO'
PIETRO CALCAGNO
LUCA GIUSEPPE QUEIROLO PALMAS
GIOVANNI DEL PUENTE (President and Coordinator of Integrated Course)
Oral
To assess the student's ability to understand the meaning of culture in determining psychiatric disorders and to develop a capacity to question and to critically look at discounted data (especially on other cultures)
