Jean-Luc Brackelaire

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Biography

At the University of Namur, my courses introduce various human sciences: psychology, criminology, ethnology, ... At the University of Louvain, I teach transcultural and intercultural clinical psychology and qualitative research methods, and collaborate on a teaching course in cultural and social anthropology.

At research level, I work in the field of cross-cultural clinical psychology, anthropology and psychoanalysis, in the fields of mental and community health, migration and exile, and psychosocial trauma, in close collaboration with university and clinical teams and networks in Belgium, France, Rwanda, Chile, Brazil and Ecuador.

Faculties/Departments/Services

Organs

Domains of expertise

  • Transcultural and intercultural clinical psychology
  • Psychology and anthropology of migration and exile
  • Interdisciplinary approach to the psychic and social effects of collective trauma
  • Qualitative methodology in clinical psychology
  • Epistemology of clinical human sciences

External responsibilities

  • Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain
  • Clinical psychologist/psychotherapist at the Guidance Center of Louvain-la-Neuve

Degrees

  • Licence in psychology and educational sciences (UCL, 1983)
  • Diploma in Sociology (UCL, 1984)
  • PhD in Psychology (UCL, 1993)

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