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Henri Ellenberger unsung pioneer of ethnopsychiatry: genesis and knowledge mobilized for the "Encyclopedie Medico-Chirurgicale" in 1965.

Emmanuel Delille

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This paper will present little known articles on ethnopsychiatry published by Henri Ellenberger in 1965 for the French "Encyclopédie Médico-Chirurgicale" (EMC), after a first transcultural study at McGill University about the impact of a physical illness of a child upon the family, according to the problem of cultural factors and pathogens (1961). By relying on archival documents (correspondance and manuscripts), we show how Henri Ellenberger took himself the initiative of involving the Anglo-Canadian specialist in epidemiology H. B. M. Murphy in a team composed solely with of Paris psychoanalysts. More precisely, we examine the knowledge mobilized by Henri Ellenberger to observe the distribution of mental disorders in populations at risk, according to the problems of cultural relativism and cultural specificity. We will discuss the scientific metaphor favored by Ellenberger at the time (the mapping of the frequency of mental disorders) and its relations to the ambient culturalism in North America, but in the context of French reception, hostile to this paradigm as well.
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halshs-00923865, version 1 (05-01-2014)

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Emmanuel Delille. Henri Ellenberger unsung pioneer of ethnopsychiatry: genesis and knowledge mobilized for the "Encyclopedie Medico-Chirurgicale" in 1965.: Henri Ellenberger, ethnopsychiatry's pioneer: cultural knowledge and populations at risk in the "Encyclopedia-Médico-Chirurgicale". European Association for the History of Medicin and Health (EAHMH Conference)., Sep 2013, Lisbonne, Portugal. ⟨halshs-00923865⟩
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