[Polish paranoia].
The article describes clinical experience with patients suffering from paranoid states during adaptation to new country and culture. The complex of symptoms in polish immigrants was called polish paranoia. It is a pathological way of coping, resulting from new culture, ignorance of language, irrational expectations of emigration profits. We think that reasons of this syndrome are polish nation experiences, one's own history and family history.
Kawecki
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New Britan General Hospital, Connecticut, USA.
Salus
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Hale
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D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D003469:Culture; D004641:Emigration and Immigration; D005602:France; D006801:Humans; D010259:Paranoid Disorders / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D011044:Poland / Q000208:ethnology; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States; D014857:Warfare