Household "ethnoscapes" and rite of passage: meaning and chronicity of the diagnosis in schizophrenia

Based on the results of an ethnographic study with people diagnosed with schizophrenia and their relatives in Barcelona and Tarragona along one year, I problematize the transformation of roles and relationships inside the household from the first burst and the assignation of a diagnosis as rite of passage. I appeal to a cultural interpretation of family, understanding the family group as a specific ethnoscape. I analyze the chronicity meaning, and its consequences in the conformation of the “role of sick person” in the context of parental relationships. I also discuss the paradoxes in terms of autonomy for the affected persons because of the projection of cultural connotation of chronicity.

Caso clínico: Arteterapia en niñ@s adoptad@s. Un lugar para vivir.

En el presente artículo pretendo describir la práctica de arteterapia con niños y adolescentes adoptad@s, a partir de un caso clínico. Se trata de un proceso de 18 meses descrito a través de las sesiones más significativas de una preadolescente adoptada a los 10 años, procedente de los países del Este, donde confluyen dos circunstancias que favorecen la complejidad del caso, como son el atravesar la adolescencia y ser una menor recientemente adoptada.