Globality as a clinical posture

Abstract

This work is part of the elaboration of an epistemological, political and ethical project in intercultural clinical psychology. This project, Globality as a Clinical Posture (in the sense of a global clinical approach, Clinique de la Mondialité in French), aims to adapt a number of everyday topics to globalization, in particular through the design of a general methodological framework. It enables the clinical psychologist to consider a worldwide dimension in the actualization and expression of patients' symptoms, as well as to assist patients in relating to the world beyond their family, the institution around them and the countries with which they are connected. Certainly, many factors can lead clinicians to question their usual devices and tools and to reposition themselves in the clinical relationship: worldwide historical and geographical population displacement as well as the transformation faced vis-à-vis the perception of self and the other in the creolized world. We analyze different epistemological and professional positions in intercultural psychology in order to develop an integrated posture – the global clinical approach posture – based on openness to interdisciplinarity and the adaptation to globality of the classical clinical approach. The basis of this new approach is, above all else, the world.

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