Psychotherapy in an African City

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Résumé

The staff of therapists which gathered around Henry Collomb at the Fann hospital of Dakar in the sixties has noticed the particularities of the African psychiatry with a noticeable predominance of delirious puffs on the other pathologies. In the years eighties, Maurice Dorès drew attention in the evolution of this situation marked by a notable diminishing of the delirious puffs in favor of hysterical psychosis and other symptomatology. This text accounts for the psychotherapeutics of patients who come to consult a psychologist in urban area and currently the most frequent motivations of this approach.

Mots-clés

African psychiatry, obsessional ideas, delirant depressive syndrome, Toxicomany, psycho therapy interviews