The intercultural approach to the trial of the mourning clinic and the suicide of the elderly: About a clinical case

For these last years, the phenomenon of ageing and the related diseases have become an alarming major problem of public health in society. Whether normal or pathological, ageing entails in fact a psychological and social readjustment. This one is articulated with a certain disorder caused in the bases of the subject's narcissism, resulting in the ceaseless recourse to death. Indeed, many psychological researches show that elderly persons in Western societies, unlike in Africa currently, start to fall under a dynamics of anticipation of death. This search for death intervenues, among others, in a context of psychological brittleness caused by the loss of a spouse or by a geographical distance of the children. Which psychopathological and clinical reading this phenomenon is related to? (c) 2021 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.