Tobie Nathan is Professor Emeritus of Psychology at the University Paris-VIII and the founder of the first ethnopsychiatric clinic in France.

Contents
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1. Secularity and the War of the Gods
2. The Veil as Membrane
3. Filiation and Affiliation
4. Conversion and Initiation
5. Apocalypse
6. Hashish and Assassins
7. Terror
8. Abandoned Children are Political Beings
9. The Foreignness of Migrant Children
10. Generations
Epilogue