How Should We Receive the Delusion of an Isolated Foreign Adolescent in Transcultural Consultation?

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In transcultural psychotherapy with an adolescent isolated foreign minor, with medical personnel or social workers, the therapists come to know the patients psychic suffering, behaviors and demands within a setting where listening and elaboration can take place with all the complexity and multiplicity of the patient’s experience. This is done by using cultural and psychiatric materials, which helps to avoid diagnostic errors and frequent splitting between the native culture and that of the host country. How can we take this reality into account without letting it take up too much psychotherapeutic space faced with an external reality made up of uncertainty, precariousness and isolation? What are the implications of this diagnosis for transcultural work when a request for diagnostic evaluation dominates treatment, particularly when the patient presents delusive elements suggestive of psychotic disorder?

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