Jean-Claude Metraux
Jean-Claude Metraux
Dr. Jean-Claude Metraux, MD, PhD, (1955) psychiatrist and child and adolescent psychotherapist. His activity is mainly oriented towards migrant families living in precarious conditions. He is co-founder of the association Appartenances (Belongings) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and currently has a psychiatric private practice.
From 1997 to 2021 he teached Health and Migration at the University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Early in his career, he worked with war victims in Nicaragua and Bosnia-Herzegovina. He is the author of several books related to his practice among them: 'La migration comme métaphore' (Migration as a metaphor), translated into Dutch (Migratie als Metafoor).
Psychiatrist and Child and Adolescent Psychotherapist
Association ‘Appartenances’, University of Lausanne
Switzerland