RESEARCH AND APPLICATIONS
Research and publication have evolved through distinct periods.

1. Preparation and introduction
Project: blending medicine and psychiatry with anthropology and sociology.
1972-73
Early transcultural work in medicine at McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
1977
MD and dissertation at the University of Geneva, Switzerland:
L’exploration de la personnalité pendant l’adolescence, vue au travers des modèles identificatoires (Approche de modèles choisis dans le monde de la Culture Pop).
1977-79
Fieldwork in Salvador, Bahia, Brazil, Universidade Federal da Bahia:
Religious synchretism and its relations to mental health in Northeastern Brazil.
1979-82
Anthropology studies in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, Tulane University:
Writings in cultural anthropology and sociology, and in public health.

2. Migration and health
1982-88
Applications in clinical work, teaching and research, back in Geneva, at University hospital and psychiatric services, as well as with integration offices for asylum seekers and refugees.
Seminars, workshops and supervisions in cultural psychiatry at hospital and other health and social services in Switzerland and in France.
1988
MA and thesis at Tulane University, New Orleans:

3. Health, culture and performance
1988 and on
Starting research and application with performance studies and theater anthropology:
Seminars and workshops with the International School of Theatre Anthropology (ISTA), based in Holstebro, Denmark and directed by Eugenio Barba;  Performance Studies International (PSi), based at New York University and directed by Richard Schechner; and the Centre for Performance Research (CPR), based in Aberystwyth, Wales and directed by Richard Gough.
1992
Completing a multidisciplinary PhD (anthropology, sociology and psychiatry) at Tulane University, with a dissertation, published in 1997:
1997 and on:
Starting the consultation in cultural psychiatry in Geneva and the ongoing teaching and research program.

4. Current projects
The masters of their condition I:
At the crossroads of health, culture and the performing arts.
The masters of their condition II:
Intercultural theater, narration and stage work with patients and healers.