Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Bastide, Roger
• RAVEAU, FRANCOIS

Titel

VARIATIONS ON BLACK AND WHITE

Ist Teil von

• Revue française de sociologie, 1963-10, Vol.4 (4), p.387-394

Erscheinungsjahr

1963

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• The preliminary hyp's of a study begun in 1961, by an ethnologist & a psychiatrist, on the mental illnesses of Africans living in France. The role played by skin color (SKC), in the etiology & symptomology of the S's, is examined. Principal methods used were: (1) records of mental hosp's, (2) case studies, (3) dream analysis, (4) drawings of neurotics, (5) the TAT, & (6) the Rorschach. The analyses are still qualitative. It seems that SKC intervenes only as the symbol of a particular soc situation, but that the frustration, psychic tensions, etc, which derive from SKC, tend to crystalize around the black/white polarity. Some conclusions are drawn from the study: both practical (eg, therapeutic tactics at the symptom level to attack the deep-seated causes, esp the possibility of pushing back the SKC feeling from the ontological to the phenomenological plane), & theoretical (eg, the importance of the shock experienced by S's at the color black, re the Rorschach test). R. Bastide tr by J. Atkins.