[Psychogenic seizures: domain for a hoca?].
We report a case of an 18 year old female Turkish patient, who was suffering from psychogenic seizures. The family did not accept the disease, prohibited treatment by a medical doctor, preferred to bring her to a Hoca. She was maltreated by her father und sexually abused at the age of eight years by her brother. In this article we describe the problems of a psychiatric ill female patient within a family of Turkish origin.
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St. Marien-Hospital Hamm Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universität Witten-Herdecke Knappenstrasse 19, 59071 Hamm. marienhospital-hamm-psych@web.de
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D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004827:Epilepsy / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D005858:Germany; D006801:Humans; D007179:Incest / Q000523:psychology; D007514:Islam; D008519:Medicine, Traditional; D008602:Mental Healing; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D014421:Turkey / Q000208:ethnology