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Article: North African Countries
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- International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis
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NORTH AFRICAN COUNTRIES
Psychoanalysis is practiced in some North African countries, particularly Morocco and Tunisia. In Algeria it can be found in rare institutions. It seems never to have made an appearance in the remaining two North African countries (Libya and Mauritania). The presence of psychoanalysis is due to several factors: a French colonial past, cultural openness, multilingualism, the proximity of Europe, and the existence of several different trends in clinical psychiatry. However, psychoanalysis remains relatively undeveloped in spite of a genuine need to help a generation that suffered the effects of social violence and upheaval in the 1990s.
Morocco was the only North ...