Maya Nadig's research while affiliated with Universität Bremen and other places

Publications (9)

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Aus einer ethnopsychoanalytischen Perspektive wird die Rolle der Alten in der matrilinearen Mosuogesellschaft in Südchina betrachtet. Sie ist davon beeinflusst, dass die Mosuo in der Regel nicht heiraten, sondern Besuchsbeziehungen pflegen, während jeder in seinem mütterlichen Großhaushalt mit den eigenen Blutsverwandten zusammenlebt. Babys gehören...
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Cultural background has been shown to influence climacteric symptoms of women. This study compares various characteristics of climacteric symptoms, illness conception, health-seeking behavior, and attitude towards menopause of Mosuo women, a Chinese ethnic minority with a matriarchal structure, and Han Chinese women, the majority ethnic group of Ch...
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Objective: This cross-cultural study aimed to compare climacteric symptoms, self-esteem, and perceived social support between Mosuo and Han Chinese women, and to explore the interaction between culture and climacteric symptoms. Mosuo is a Chinese minority group with a matriarchal structure, and Han Chinese is the majority ethnic group in China wit...
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In dem vorliegenden Band werden verschiedene Zusammenhänge von Wandel dargestellt, um zu verdeutlichen, dass die aktuellen Transformationen von Kultur nicht auf einer einzelnen disziplinären oder gesellschaftlichen Ebene zu verstehen sind, sondern dass diese in einem vielschichtigen Wechselverhältnis zueinander stehen.
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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...
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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...
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Was bedeutet es heute für die Subjekte, daß sie nicht mehr in ein gültiges traditionelles Ordnungs- und Wertesystem hineinwachsen, sondern angehalten sind, sich permanent mit ständig bewegten kulturellen Symbolisierungs- und Organisationsprozessen auseinanderzusetzen und sich in ihnen zu verorten? In dieser Auseinandersetzung sind sie herausgeforde...

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... The results are consistent with previous epidemiological studies that Mosuo women generally have better mental health than other ethnic groups (Xu et al., 2018;Yang et al., 2018). For instance, the incidence of depression during perimenopause in Mosuo women is lower than that in Han women (Zhang et al., 2013(Zhang et al., , 2019. The results of this study indicate that different ethnic women groups have various levels of menopause-related symptoms. ...
... In essence, social support is a multidimensional concept, including support from family, friends, and others [15]. In the context of Chinese traditional culture, family is usually regarded as the closest social support system for women [16]. Individuals with high levels of family support feel more secure, are easily aware of the positive aspects of event, and seek coping strategies, reducing psychological stress [17,18]. ...
... The original model of transcultural psychotherapy (TPT) has been developing in France since the 1980s [41][42][43][44][45][46] to take cultural diversity into account in psychological treatment and to deal with the specific difficulties encountered in psychotherapy with adolescent migrants. This second-line treatment, based on Georges Devereux's work in ethnopsychoanalysis [47], is indicated when first-line professionals experience difficulties in building up a relationship of trust and good communication, when they feel helpless when confronted with patients' cultural conceptualization of distress, or when they doubt the pertinence of their diagnosis and the patients' adherence to treatment and services [48]. ...
... There is a rich empirical and methodological literature concerned with how concepts from psychoanalysis can enrich the notion of researcher reflexivity, the understanding of researcher-participant relationships and research endeavours more generally via attention to unconscious processes (Berg, 1985;Hollway and Jefferson, 2000;Marks and Mönnich-Marks, 2003;Gadd, 2004;Boyle et al, 2009;Cooper, 2009;Drapeau, 2009;Hollway, 2009;Sturm et al, 2010;Proudfoot, 2015). Psychoanalytic ideas addressed in this literature include transference, countertransference, projection and projective identification, as well as technical and practical adjustments in undertaking research, for example, using more unstructured interviews more closely resembling 'free associative' therapy dialogue and recording detailed 'process' notes after interviews. ...
... The methodological framework chosen for this study was that generally used in ethnobotany (Alexiades and Sheldon 1996;Cotton 1996), cognitive (Nadig 2000). The fi eldwork was carried out by using in-depth participant observation and unstructured and semistructured interviews and discussions, with individuals and groups, among approximately ninety persons in Gheg Albanian (with the help of a simultaneous interpreter) and Italian languages (a large portion of the inhabitants of northern Albania speak Italian, generally learned by watching Italian television programmes). ...