This thesis examines the relationship between trauma and psychosis among refugees who were tortured. In particular, it analyses the systems of meaning and the phenomenology of the symptoms through a triangulation of perspectives, namely that of the patients, their family or friends and clinicians. It uses a multiple case study design to analyse interviews of three triads and two diads in depth. Results show an important phenomenological overlap between trauma and psychosis, regarding symptoms. They also show a divergence between the patients' systems of meanings and the clinicians' regarding the importance and the role of trauma in the onset of psychosis. / Ce mémoire examine la question des liens entre trauma et psychose chez des réfugiés victimes de torture. Il analyse en particulier les systèmes de sens et la phénoménologie des symptômes à travers une triangulation des perspectives: celle des patients, de leur entourage et de leurs intervenants. Il s'agit d'une étude de cas multiples dans laquelle les entretiens de trois triades et deux dyades sont analysés en profondeur. Les résultats témoignent d'un fort recouvrement phénoménologique entre trauma et psychose au niveau des symptômes. Au niveau des systèmes de sens, on trouve un décalage de perspectives entre les patients et leurs intervenants quant à l'importance et au rôle du trauma dans le développement de la psychose.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.86950 |
| Date | January 2010 |
| Creators | Royant, Coline |
| Contributors | Cecile Rousseau (Internal/Supervisor), Eric Jarvis (Internal/Cosupervisor2) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | French |
| Detected Language | French |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Master of Science (Department of Psychiatry) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | Electronically-submitted theses. |
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