Abstract
The aim of a research project running over several years consists in studying the disruption of identity with excluded and marginalised persons by combining the clinical with the psychosocial approach. An exploratory comparative study is based on the investigation of 206 persons suffering from social precarity, belonging to different clinical subgroups: long-lasting unemployed people, homeless people, refugees and political asylum seekers, people coming out of prison, drug addicts. The authors used an integrated qualitative and quantitative methodology, investigating the level of anxiety, depression and well-being, but also the expression of the underlying personality organization, as well as the usual functioning of the defence mechanisms in relationship with the biographic events. We combined semi-structured interviews with psychometric and projective tests. The results of the study show the pertinence of our methodological approach and point to the existence of different personality profiles among the excluded. These profiles may lead to differential psychotherapeutic measures.
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