Anthropology and Psychoanalysis in Ernesto de Martino’s Ethnopsychiatry
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Ernesto de Martino; ethnopsychiatry; anthropology; psycho- analysisАбстракт
This paper aims to understand how Ernesto de Martino’s work became the epistemological basis of ethnopsychiatry in Italy, especially through the dialogue between anthropology and psychoanalysis. Demartinian theory can be considered as a foundation for cultural readings of subjectivity and ways of expressing and managing psychological suffering. In this article, I will analyze some of his publications regarding the mythicalritual aspects of the Italian South (Meridionalist trilogy), specifically his book entitled “La terra del rimorso” (The Land of Remorse), published in 1961. De Martino is not only recognized for his historical contributions to ethnopsychiatry and transcultural psychiatry, but also as a forerunner in the Italian context of what I call a “decolonization of mental health”.
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