Troisoeufs Aurélien

Health anthropologist, GHU Paris psychiatrie & neurosciences

Research

Aurélien Troisoeufs is a health anthropologist. His work focuses on the participation of users/neighbours in healthcare. From this angle, he is interested in the transformations linked to collective mobilisation and the emergence of new roles, functions and professions for people with direct or indirect experience of an illness.

After completing a thesis in anthropology (Paris 5) on mental health/psychiatry user associations, he turned his attention to the participation of users/neighbours in other spaces: the internet, hospitals (DAIP, a calming space), housing (Voisiner) and in different forms: professional/volunteer peer helper, peer health mediator, patient intervener, patient partner, 'patient-researcher'.

For the past 5 years, he has been working on Therapeutic Patient Education (TPE) in neurology (Parkinson's disease) and psychiatry. The aim is to study the place and role of users/relatives in this practice and the relationships produced with health professionals.