title: [A communications theory approach to the mechanisms of development of psychiatric disorders exemplified by foreign workers].
abstract: This article is intended as a contribution towards interpreting the development of psychiatric symptoms as a final result of disturbed processes of communication. We should like to point out that the importance of communication for normal and abnormal behaviour has been established both from the viewpoints of sociopsychology and family therapy as well as of cognition psychology and psychophysiology. The present study is limited to the presentation of clinical aspects, but it should be pointed out that a systematic phase concept of treatment can be developed via an integration of psychophysiological research studies on this subject; however, we have not gone into this possibility in detail in the present study.
authors: Forschungsdirektion der Psychiatrischen Universitätsklinik, Zürich.
authors: M
authors: M
authors: Koukkou
authors: D
authors: D
authors: Zimmer-Höfler
mesh_terms: D000069:Acculturation; D000328:Adult; D003142:Communication; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D012307:Risk Factors
vernacular_title: Ein kommunikationstheoretischer Ansatz der Entstehungsmechanismen psychischer Störungen am Beispiel von ausländischen Arbeitnehmern.