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Clinical Geopolitical Psychology: A New Approach Adapted to Planetary Changes and Emerging Identities

Pages 85-96
Published online: 21 Feb 2018
 
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In her conference speech given at the European Association for Transactional Analysis Conference in Geneva in July 2016, the author shows how the considerable geopolitical changes that occurred during the last decades have impacted our therapeutic work. A new figure of the unconscious has to be taken into account: the geopolitical unconscious. New constructions of identities are emerging: postcolonial, postmodern, postcommunist, mixed-race, transgender, and transclass identities. Our clinical practices are enriched and perfectly suited to our clients’ needs when we introduce the figure of metamorphosis in accompanying the process of their identity construction; when we deconstruct their previous identification yet without imposing a reaffiliation in the culture of origin; and when we help our clients to accept the multiplicity in themselves. This may lead to a better acceptance of multiplicity in the world. Then, another world becomes possible.

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Françoise Sironi

Françoise Sironi is psychologist, psychotherapist, and assistant professor at Paris 8 University. She works with both victims (torture, rape, genocide, displaced populations) and perpetrators of political violence (torturers, warriors, child soldiers, etc.). She is one of the founders of the Primo Levi Center in Paris, a treatment center for victims of torture and collective traumas. She is also one of the founders of a veterans center in Perm (Russia) that treats combatants who were traumatized by operations in Afghanistan and Chechnya. At Paris 8 University, Françoise directed the Centre Georges Devereux, which specialized in ethonopsychiatry. She is often appointed as an expert witness in psychology in international penal justice and works, therefore, with various courts (e.g., the International Criminal Court in The Hague; Paris Court, Section “Crimes Against Humanity and Genocides”; Special Court judging the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia; etc.). Françoise can be reached at 13 Avenue Corentin Cariou, 75019 Paris, France; email: .
This article was originally presented on 8 July 2016 as the keynote speech at the European Association for Transactional Analysis Conference in Geneva, Switzerland. It was translated from the French by Elodie Hasler and Anne-Laure Gex.

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The author received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article.
 

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