The clinical approach in the human sciences

This collection of texts, the author of which teaches clinical psychology at the university, deals with subjects from several disciplines: Ethnology, History, etc. The essential question he tries to address is how to proceed with the clinical method in these various disciplinary fields, in these different social contexts. The first article, entitled "Clinical Writing in Ethnology," questions the posture that the clinical psychologist should adopt when undertaking research and writing in the field of ethnology. What can still be called clinical "in this new direction? This first chapter sets the tone for those who will succeed it. The following chapter is made up of the results of research on the future of Burkinabè students, activists of communist organizations, since the coming to power of Gorbachev in the USSR and the fall of the Berlin Wall; We will see that even on a topic apparently remote from ethnological concerns, we are obliged to appeal to anthropological notions.