title: [Phenomenology of exile: the exiled person and his family].
abstract: The experience of exile is the result of the interaction between the protagonists of this human tragedy and the society of refuge. The ambivalence of the refugee and his family is due to the loss of the original narcissistic supports and the need to assert the new situation. The article explains the characteristics of the experience of exile, at the individual and family level, and underlines the double challenge which has to be accepted by the exile and his family as well as by the society of refuge.
authors.affiliation: Service de Psychopathologie, Cliniques Universitaires St-Luc, U.C.L., Bruxelles.
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Serrano
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D005190:Family; D006117:Grief; D006801:Humans; D009289:Narcissism; D011582:Psychological Theory; D012036:Refugees / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment; D012933:Social Identification
vernacular_title: Phénoménologie de l'exil: l'exilé et sa famille.