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Introduction
G Sturm trained at the Universities of Bremen (Germany) and Paris Nord in Clinical Psychology and Cultural Studies.
She is member of the Laboratoire Cliniques Interculturelles et Psychopathologique (LCPI).
Besides her teaching and research activities, she is working as a clinical psychologist at the University Hospital of Toulouse.
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September 2012 - April 2016
September 2012 - May 2016
September 2012 - January 2019
Education
September 1993 - May 1999
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Cet article propose une réflexion théorique sur les liens entre psychotraumatisme, vulnérabilité psychique et narrativité chez les migrants en parcours d’exil. Afin de penser l’intrication entre la vie psychique et les contextes socioculturels des parcours de vie des migrants, nous introduisons la notion de « trajectoire de vulnérabilité psychique...
Le recours à un IPS vise à pallier les difficultés rencontrées lors d’un bilan de langage d’un enfant bilingue, mais reste une pratique méconnue des orthophonistes français. Notre étude explore l’implémentation d’un IPS dans ce type d’évaluation. Nous avons effectué une analyse qualitative par analyse thématique d’entretiens et observations durant...
Introduction:
The majority of adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) reside in sub-Saharan Africa, with sexual and reproductive health (SRH) needs to be met. The health care facilities and professionals involved have a major role to assume in the quality of SRH services offered to these teenagers.
Objective:
To investigate the SRH services offered...
Background
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a disproportionately hard impact on refugees and other migrants who are often exposed to the virus with limited means to protect themselves. We tested the hypothesis that during the COVID-19 pandemic, refugees and other migrants have suffered a negative impact on mental health and have been unjustly discrimi...
Introduction:
This qualitative study explores the experience of HIV-disclosure among adolescents living with HIV acquired during the perinatal period, followed in pediatric HIV care structures in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire.
Purpose of research:
Thirty adolescents and young adults living with HIV, ages 13 to 21, participated in a semi-structured inte...
Background
There is a lack of empirical evidence on the level of cultural adaptation required for psychological interventions developed in Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic (WEIRD) societies to be effective for the treatment of common mental disorders among culturally and ethnically diverse groups. This lack of evidence is par...
Background
The often-precarious life circumstances of undocumented migrants are likely to heighten the detrimental impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on their lives. Given the paucity of research exploring how undocumented migrants are affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, we set out to explore the association between being an undocumented migrant and a...
Intercultural exploration and autobiographical narratives: the case of a Singaporean teenager
Our article presents the results of a doctoral research in intercultural psychology, investigating interactions between the interculturation process and the cognitive and developmental processes in France and Singapore. We consider the case of Meziane, a S...
The COVID-19 pandemic is a defining global health crisis of our time. While the impact of COVID-19, including its mental health impact, is increasingly being documented, there remain important gaps regarding the specific consequences of the pandemic on particular population groups, including refugees and migrants. This study aims to uncover the imp...
Objectives: Two of Europe's most influential psychopathologists at the start of the twentieth century (Eugen Bleuler and Karl Jaspers) pointed out the fact that patients rarely act accordingly to their delusion. This study proposes to investigate how this issue is addressed in psychopathological literature.
Methods: This article offers a critical r...
Cet article interroge l’apport de la psychologie interculturelle aux démarches d’évaluation projective en clinique et en recherche. Il s’inscrit dans le champ de la psychologie interculturelle qui soutient, au niveau épistémologique, la relation constitutive intime entre les contextes d’appartenance et le développement toujours singulier du sujet p...
https://revuelautre.com/editoriaux/face-a-la-pandemie-ne-laisser-tomber-personne-alors-que-les-inegalites-saggravent/
Dans un contexte où le contact entre différents groupes culturels peut être marqué par l’appréhension, la peur, ou même un certain rejet de « l’autre culturel », les processus liés à l’appréhension de la différence culturelle peuvent s’avérer difficiles, notamment pour les enfants qui font partie de minorités et vivent dans des quartiers défavorisé...
We report the attitudes and practices of health care workers involved in the disclosure process to adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in a network including West and Central African French- speaking countries, and the experiences of young living with HIV (YLHIV). During a three-day workshop in Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, caregivers (doctors, psycholog...
This article presents and discusses the experience of a student network in Toulouse (RETSER31) which engaged in psychosocial and cultural support activites with relocated refugees from the dismanteled Calais refugee camp. On the basis of fieldnotes taken by participating students, we discuss the forms of psychosocial vulnerability the students obse...
Child and adolescent mental health services in Europe are confronted with children with increasingly diverse socio-cultural backgrounds. Clinicians encounter cultural environments of hyperdiversity in terms of languages and countries of origin, growing diversity within groups, and accelerated change with regards to social and administrational situa...
This article presents the recently created intercultural consultation at the Medical and Psychological Health Care Service (CMP) of the University Hospital la Grave at Toulouse. The approach of the intercultural consultation was elaborated in response to the increasing diversity of children and families using the service in Toulouse. It is also bas...
Présentation dans l’atelier ”L’art de l’inclusion : dialogue démocratique et questions vives au musée (démocratie, langue, société, religion, interculturalité, mémoire.)” Co-Référents du groupe : -Aurélie Albajar, Musée des Augustins, Toulouse ; suppléantes : Céline Villiers, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille, Isabelle Beccia, Musée des Beaux-Arts de...
Dans cet article, à partir d’une situation clinique rencontrée dans la consultation interculturelle du service universitaire de psychiatrie de l’enfant et de l’adolescent (SUPEA) du CHU de Toulouse (Hôpital La Grave), nous interrogeons la manière dont les membres d’une famille utilisent les nouvelles technologies de communication pour maintenir des...
Addition of Health Strand to the Migrant Integration Policy Index in collaboration with COST ADAPT research network and Migration Policy Group. The International Organization for Migration, the Migration Policy Group and the research network ADAPT (COST Action IS1103, "Adapting European health systems to diversity") workеd together to enrich the 20...
présentation du projet lors de la réunion du pole interculturation et contact culturels en janvier
https://www.cairn.info/revue-l-autre-2016-3-page-350.htm
Nous proposons d’exposer la dimension méthodologique d’une recherche qualitative en psychologie, auprès d’individus pris dans un processus de précarisation et dans ce cadre, l’apport d’un logiciel de traitement de données qualitatives.
Il s’agit, dans cet article, de décrire et d’argumenter les choix méthodologiques : ils intègrent une démarche co...
Il est question de présenter la construction méthodologique d’une recherche qualitative en psychologie portant sur des personnes en situation de précarité sociale. Cette recherche a pour ambition de montrer l’impact psychique et relationnel de cette situation sociale mise en perspective avec des parcours de vie précoces douloureux. Elle souligne l’...
Il est question de présenter la construction méthodologique d’une recherche qualitative en
psychologie portant sur des personnes en situation de précarité sociale. Cette recherche a pour
ambition de montrer l’impact psychique et relationnel de cette situation sociale mise en
perspective avec des parcours de vie précoces douloureux. Elle souligne l’...
Abstract in French and in English
Résumé : Dans cet article, nous présentons un dispositif d’intervention interculturelle qui a été créé au Service Universitaire Psychiatrie de l’Enfant et de l’Adolescent (SUPEA) de l’-hôpital la Grave à Toulouse afin d’améliorer l’alliance thérapeutique entre familles et soignants dans le contexte des prises en c...
L'ensemble des analyses contenues dans ce volume 12, n° 2 de la revue Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales, sans rejeter tous les acquis de l'anthropologie classique, met en évidence une certaine spécificité de la mort dans la postmodernité dont on sent que les facteurs les plus déterminants sont l'accentuation de l'individualité, la force d...
L'ensemble des textes présents dans ce volume (vol. 12, n° 1) de la revue Nouvelles perspectives en sciences sociales, sans rejeter tous les acquis de l'anthropologie classique, met en évidence une certaine spécificité de la mort dans la postmodernité dont on sent que les facteurs les plus déterminants sont l'accentuation de l'individualité, la for...
Cette fiche propose une brève introduction aux concepts de la psychologie clinique interculturelle et transculturelle. Trois manières de penser la dimension culturelle sont discutées dans leurs implications pour la clinique : La culture en tant que système symbolique, la culture en tant que manière de définir des appartenances, la culture dans le s...
Dans cette fiche, nous abordons les particularités de la prise en charge de l’adulte dans la clinique transculturelle, en évoquant d’abord quelques-unes des thématiques principales rencontrées dans ces situations, puis en nous concentrant sur les enjeux de la première rencontre : l’entretien d’accueil, d’évaluation ou d’orientation, la question de...
Quelle place donner à la culture dans la relation clinique ? À quelles problématiques spécifiques sont confrontés les migrants, les femmes accouchant loin de leur pays d’origine ou les enfants nés ici mais dont les parents ou grands-parents sont venus d’ailleurs ? Comment accueillir les patients et prendre en charge le traumatisme ou les troubles d...
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Psychological Trauma and Failing Environments in Individuals in Situations of Social Precarity
This qualitative research seeks to understand the links between trauma, borderline personality disorder, and social precarity. We conducted 20 interviews, designed with reference to Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), with 10 different subjec...
Cet article propose une présentation des approches franc¸aises de la psychiatrie transculturelle et interculturelle. Il commence par une introduction historique, faisant mention de l’influence des travaux de Kraepelin et de l’actualité des questionnements soulevés par sa démarche qui cherche à établir une nosologie psychiatrique universelle. Ensuit...
Cette communication présente le processus methodologique d'une recherche qualitative en psychologie aurprès d'individus en situation de précarité sociale. Pour engager cette étude qui recherche des liens entre parcours de vie traumatogènes, logique psychique particulière et vécu subjectif de leur situation sociale, il était nécessaire d’avoir une a...
Exposure to stress and psychosocial impact of the Great East Japan Earthquake on French Nationals who were in Japan in March 2011
A qualitative study
The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami of the 11th of March 2011 was followed by a nuclear accident. This study aim to identify the exposure to stress, the psychosocial impact and information ne...
This paper presents the therapeutic family follow-up of a small, mobile child psychiatry team working in rural New Caledonia and treating an indigenous Kanak boy aged 12 suffering from severe, incapacitating headaches for which no physiological cause could be found. Subsequent to the instatement of our care protocol in October 1994, we pursued rese...
Relationship mode, addictions and social precarity
This article is based on qualitative research in psychology that examines the relationship between experiences of social precarity, trauma, and borderline personality organization. The interview guidelines were based on the Operationalized Psychodynamic Diagnosis (OPD-2), which includes a process-o...
Migrant mothers and perinatal care : a transcultural approach
We report on the results of a longitudinal qualitative study exploring the processes involved in the interactions occurring between migrant women and maternity caregivers during the perinatal period. Interactions were examined using 20 semi-structured interviews conducted with patients (...
Bricolage and the creation of hybrid methods. The construction of a multi-referential method in a research about the therapeutic space in intercultural therapies
While presenting the example of a research on transcultural psychotherapies in a group-setting, we discuss the construction of an interdisciplinary method in research in intercultural psyc...
Complementarism in clinical intercultural psychology research
This article presents a complementarist method used in research on historical trauma. It is based on a research about the young people who participated in the “riots” in autumn 2005 in France. Within a methodological frame referring to psychoanalysis, interactionist sociology cultural an...
The approach to and conception of time differ according to culture and the individual. In the nursing encounter, the reintroduction of human temporality helps those concerned to perceive the other person's time. The transcultural perspective demonstrates the need to take this specific time into account.
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This research explores the phenomenon of social exclusion into a complementarist approach using interviews with six people as a starting point. Thanks to a qualitative method based on the grounded theory, we carried out a comparative analysis of our material. The analysis helped to show the traumatogenic dimension of social exclusion. We used the c...
How to receive and treat unaccompanied minors from foreign countries ?
The problems relating to unaccompanied international minors we receive in the « Maisons des Adolescents » are complex. Studies about mental health of these young people are still few. Most of them must go through their identity construction period alone and have often experience...
Migrant families, families in change. The paradigm of the complexity. The example of families of North-African origin
Starting from the example of families of North-African origin, this article discusses the issue of change in migrant families. The authors show the limits of theoretical approaches which use the concept of acculturation in order to...
French ethnopsychoanalytic approaches to therapy with immigrants combine the psychoanalytical interest in subjectivity with a specific concern for cultural factors and with the role migration plays as a crucial life event. Recent approaches consider culture as profoundly hybrid and use the notions of ''métissage'' and ''décentrage'' as central conc...
This paper discusses the French Ethnopsychoanalytic approach to trauma in transcultural therapy situations. The authors first describe the basic principles of the French Ethnopsychoanalytic tradition and the theoretical developments of this tradition within the last 30 years. These approaches combine a psychoanalytic understanding of therapeutic pr...
The paper presents an ethnographic research in the ethnopsychoanalytic tradition about a specific type of therapy, which was developed in France: the transcultural therapy in a "multicultural group setting." The authors detail the construction of their methodological approach, which relies on the French and the Swiss tradition of ethnopsychoanalyti...
This article presents and critically analyses an approach that is part of a specific context of health care ideologies and services in France: the ethnopsychoanalytic consultations that are practised at the Avicenne Hospital. It is one of the few places where a specific approach for immigrant clients is offered in a university hospital. We give som...
La laïcité à l’hôpital est rationnellement sereine et pratiquement subversive. En témoigne l’expérience de l’Hôpital Avicenne de Bobigny (93), banlieue parisienne multiculturelle et métissée à l’image de nos sociétés contemporaines complexes où cohabitent et parfois s’entrechoquent des identités plurielles. La laïcité doit être une théorie, mais ég...
La question transculturelle se pose pour la psycho-oncologie comme pour tous les secteurs de la médecine et de la psychologie.
Comment penser le cancer, son annonce, son traitement, ses effets sur le patient, comment résister à la maladie, comment se
sentir guérir ? Les études sur ce sujet sont encore peu nombreuses mais elles existent en France, a...
Notre travail s’inscrit dans le cadre d’activité d’urgence médicopsychologique et de consultation spécialisée dont la vocation est d’assurer la prise en charge de sujets victimes d’événements traumatiques, qu’ils soient de nature intentionnelle (violences, guerres) ou non intentionnelle (catastrophe naturelle, accident). Les interventions menées au...
Racism reflection: the veil, emblem of conflict hibridity
The purpose of this research is to show the link between collective history and a particular phenomenon: the “veiled body” of French teen-agers from Muslim Algerian families. Starting from an interrogation about the articulation between psyche and culture, this study introduces historical di...
Psychotherapies with refugees and asylum seekers are a challenging task for health professionals. Therapists do not only have to face the difficulties of transcultural communication, they also have to confront the omnipresence of social and administrative problems these patients struggle with. They equally have to adapt their technique to the dynam...
This paper analyses the interactions occurring in a specific therapeutical setting that has been developped in France for psychotherapies of patients with a migration background. These therapies are proposed by a multicultural staff of therapists working in the out patients section of a hospital in Bobigny, a suburb of Paris. My investigation uses...
La souffrance psychique des populations soumises à des conflits, des situations de violences organisées, des déplacements forcés est aujourd'hui une donnée connue et admise par tous. Nous rencontrons ces patients dans le cadre de notre travail en situation humanitaire (Baubet & al. 2003a et 2003b, Lachal & al. 2003), mais également en France, lorsq...
From an analysis of a transcultural psychotherapy consultation, the authors discuss specific elements within this setting. The therapeutic alliance is established on the basis of non specific factors already discribed in literature, e.g. transference, the empathy of the therapist and his counter-transference. Other elements appear more specific : c...
The role of ethnicity in therapy: an investigation upon the subjective experience of belonging
The role of ethnicity is explored trough an analysis of the subjective experience of patients in three transcultural consultations. Patients evoque their ethnicity in relation to certain contexts like conflicts concerning the extended family or when in se...