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Somatization of psychiatric illness in mediterranean migrants in Belgium

✍ Scribed by Myriam Moffaert; André Vereecken

Book ID
104623807
Publisher
Springer US
Year
1989
Tongue
English
Weight
902 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
0165-005X

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✦ Synopsis

Mediterranean migrants with acute psychiatric problems show a predominance of dramatic somatization in their symptom patterns, when compared with Belgian patients with similar psychiatric problems and admitted after identical recruiting and referral procedures. D.S.M. HI diagnoses of the Mediterranean patients, however, reveal neither a correspondingly high incidence of somatoform disorders nor histriortic personalities. Adult and adolescent Mediterranean migrants appear to convey psychological problems through contrasting forms of somatization. Adolescents somatize mainly through serf-inflicted symptoms, whereas adults express somatization in a more 'natural' way -insubjective bodily sensations, psychophysiological symptoms or psychosomatic syndromes. The main reason for acute psychiatric admission among Belgian adolescents is outward aggressive behaviour. In Mediterranean adolescents in Belgium it is a combination of somatization and aggression in self-inflicted physical symptoms.

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