ABSTRACT
This chapter constructs three different “models” of mediation, in accordance with the characteristics that appear as the most prominent in each narrative: “ontological brokers,” “translators,” and “bridges.” “Ontological brokers” are human actants who consciously mediate between different realities. “Translators” interpret symbolic worlds, but unlike ontological brokers, do not become partial connectors between different realities: they either stay anchored in one particular cultural space, or simply consider themselves outsiders to both. Finally, “bridges” are individuals who do not take a consciously active action in filling gaps, but who, nonetheless, in themselves (in their body, in their consciousness) encapsulate different therapeutic networks.
