[Transcultural psychiatry or ethnopsychiatry].
Dr. med. Ursula Davatz is heading the socio-psychiatric service at the psychiatric clinic of Königsfelden. She has trained as a family therapist according to M. Bowen. Dr. med. Adnan Serce is as turkish speaking physician responsive for the "transcultural" psychiatric domain in this service. The authors describe their experiences and difficulties in treating turkish and kurdish psychiatric patients. The language barrier, a divergent cultural background and the tendency of patients and somatic physicians to ascribe psychic problems to somatic causes or symptoms impede, according to the authors, a timely and adequate psychiatric treatment. A dialogue-oriented introspective therapeutic approach is often met by unsurmountable difficulties. Therapeutic success is, however, not excluded as the following examples demonstrate.
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D000328:Adult; D003469:Culture; D005008:Ethnopsychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000208:ethnology; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000208:ethnology*; D013557:Switzerland; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology