[Identity, culture and psychological discomfort: elements for a metacultural psychotherapy]

Abstract

The purpose of this article is to offer observations and insights gained during the implementation of a specific Intervention Project and an experience of clinical work devoted to foreign people, including hot topics in the field of psychology and psychoterapy: the psychic discomfort of migrants. Today multiethnic and multicultural society that are urgently in the modern world is a reality that needs a more consistent focus and a complex response from psychiatry, psychology and science territorial similar. In the therapeutic relationship with an "other culture" the operator will adjust and restructure himself with great flexibility and particular sensitivity. It's always necessary to recognize the sense of cultural diversity for which the bearer is an immigrant. The disorders and mental discomfort can not be nor decontext, nor dehistoric. Metacultural psychotherapy may represent a mode of intervention in the complexity of migration processes that allow reading the psychic discomfort through a review and rethinking of the relationship of care and listening for otherness.