2017
Cairn
Grégoire Thibouville, « Fraternal violence, Therapy of two Melanesian brothers », Le Divan familial, ID : 10670/1.2179f8...
The author shares a cultural psychotherapy experience of two Melanesian brothers. The therapist, in allogeneic position, receives fraternal violence during weekly one-hour sessions. The brothers endanger themselves in a destructiveness threatening their mutual narcissistic construction. They undermine the institution of child protection that welcomes them. Thus the team mobilizes the psychologist to work with them in a cultural gap. This enables these brothers to end their rivalry even their fratricide desire. So reveals the way to (re) create a family and generational history in a unique ethnocultural background in New Caledonia.