Frantz Fanon Association & Frantz Fanon Centre

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1 Frantz Fanon Association & Frantz Fanon Centre Frantz Fanon Centre is a public service, founded in 1996 in Turin (Northern Italy), addressed to migrants, refugees and victims of torture in need of psychotherapy and counselling. Frantz Fanon Association is a social private organization, founded in 1997 in Turin in order to promote health and assistance among migrants and minorities, both in Italy and in other countries. The Association aims to improve cultural competences within the Italian Institutions (health and social services) and enhance ethnopsychiatric and medico-anthropological knowledge.

2 Associazione Frantz Fanon Based on Frantz Fanon s thinking, our practice and research want to: 1.Place culture, belonging and subjects into the stream of History and Conflict; 2.Critically analyse genealogy and archaeology of psychiatric diagnostic categories; 3.Construct therapeutic strategies anchored to specific idioms of suffering; 4.Interrogate forms of political subjectivation in postcolonial context.

3 Clinical activities Frantz Fanon Centre was the first ethno-psychiatric service established in Italy within the Public Health Service and with the specific aim of making available psychotherapy and psychological support to migrants, refugees and victims of torture. Actually it works thanks to an agreement with the Mental Health Department. Since the beginning of its activities, psychotherapy and support groups were realized with the collaboration of so-called cultural mediators, whose basic skills have been implemented by a specific training in psychological and anthropological domain. Cultural mediators (coming from Morocco, Romania, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Jordan, Somali, Ethiopia, India, Colombia) work in the Centre for 4 to 16 hours per week.

4 Clinical activities Frantz Fanon Centre is open 3 days per week (for 16 hours). In these last years the Centre took in charge above 1500 outpatients (included families and couples). Most of them were affected by serious psychiatric disorders and severe forms of suffering. Their treatment and recovery have been made possible thanks to close cooperation with mental health services spread in the territory. The team is multi-disciplinary and multi-professional (psychiatrists, psychotherapists, psychologists, cultural mediators, anthropologists, social workers). Its activity is funded and supported by national and international Institutions.

5 Counselling and training An important part of activities concerns clinical supervision and training of health professionals, social workers and teams working in hospitals, communities, schools, health services, etc. Since 2000, we regularly offer training and counselling to social workers and health professionals working with: a)women victims of sexual trafficking b)asylum-seekers and refugees c)victims of torture d)unaccompanied children and asylum-seekers unaccompanied children e)so called second generation

6 Counselling and training Courses about Health, Disease and Healing between History and Culture were organized in 2004 and 2006 for psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and anthropologists. The Association periodically promotes seminars, workshops and courses on Applied Medical Anthropology and Critical Ethnopsychiatry, sometimes collaborating with other Institutions (Department of Anthropology, University of Turin; Silvano Andolfi Foundation Roma; Italo-French University, Turin & Paris; Treatment Rehabilitation Centre for Victims of T orture Ramallah; Synergie Centre Goma, RDC).

7 T-SHaRE Project Frantz Fanon Association will coordinate WP7: innovative protocols for building and training inter-professional and intercultural teams working in the healthcare services for migrants (focus on mental health and women). Its goal is to recognize different skills that the cultural and therapeutic mediators need to have or to improve during the practised activities. Frantz Fanon Association will propose, analyse and discuss with all partners the following issues:

8 1. Psychological theories and psychotherapeutics settings from an anthropological point of view: what the team must know about it? 2. Translation and interpretation: how manage them in psychotherapy? 3. Medical, Cultural and Religious Anthropology: perspectives and methodology. 4. Notions of trauma and structural violence : traumatic memory between remembering and forgetting 5. Notions of Culture, Psyche, Identity, Cripto-Racism, Gender and Ethnicity: issues for a critical and applied medical anthropology.

9 Publications (books) 2004: Beneduce Roberto, Frontiere dell identità e della memoria (1998). 2006: Taliani, Simona e Vacchiano, Francesco. Altri corpi. Antropologia ed etnopsicologia della migrazione. 2007, Roberto Beneduce, Etnopsichiatria. Sofferenza mentale e alterità fra Storia, dominio e cultura. 2008, Roberto Beneduce, Breve Dizionario di Etnopsichiatria. 2010: Roberto Beneduce, Archeologie del trauma. Per un antropologia del sottosuolo.

10 Publications (articles) 2005: Roberto Beneduce & Pompeo Martelli, Politics of Healing and Politics of Culture: Ethnopsychiatry, Identities and Migration, Transcultural Psychiatry, 42, pp : Roberto Beneduce & Simona Taliani, Embodied Powers, Deconstructed Bodies. Spirit Possession, Sickness, and the Search for Wealth of Nigerian Immigrant Women, Anthropos, 2006, 101 (2), pp , Roberto Beneduce, L apport de Frantz Fanon à l ethnopsychiatrie critique, Vie sociale et travail, n. 89, pp : Roberto Beneduce, Contested Memories. Peace-building Strategies and Community Rehabilitation after Mass Crime: A Medico-anthropological Approach in After Mass Crime. Rebuilding States and Communities, ed. by S. Chesterman, B. Pouligny and A. Schnabel, New York Tokio, New York University Press, pp :Roberto Beneduce, Undocumented bodies, burned identities: refugees, sans papier, harraga when things fall apart, Social Science Information, 47, 4, pp

11 Frantz Fanon Centre DSM ASL TO1 Via Vassalli Eandi Turin Italy Tel.: 0039 (0) Fax: 0039 (0) Monday 2.00 p.m p.m. Thursday 9.00 a.m p.m. Wednesday 2.00 p.m p.m.

12 Associazione Frantz Fanon Frantz Fanon Association C/O Centro Studi Sereno Regis Via Garibaldi Turin Italy Tel.: 0039 (0) Fax: 0039 (0)