title: Mental illness and ethnicity - being a stateless person (apatride).
abstract: The main aim of this study has been to perceive the state of mentally ill stateless person hospitalized in Psychiatric Hospital Rab, Croatia with forensic status. This is a case report of such a person, F.V., 25 years old female, with no documents and other affirmed auto and heteroanamnestic data. Her psychical state and ability of communication do not allow realization of certain autoanamnesis and in the same time she has no family or relatives to give heteroanamnestic data. It is also unknown exact date and place of birth. Only certain data were that she lived in many orphanages, refugees' camps and communes in several European countries. She immigrated illegally in Croatia where she has made some criminal acts and earned forensic status. We tried to evaluated the complex status of our patient from several points of view and tried to answer to the questions where to start and what to do with such a person to do the best for her and including her human rights. As a conclusion, we could say that holistic and individual approach to such patients has been necessary with engagement of many profiles of professionals.
authors.affiliation: Psychiatric Hospital Rab, Croatia. sjonovska@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Vesna Sendula
authors.initials: VS
authors.lastname: Jengić
authors.forename: Suzana
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jonovska
authors.forename: Nada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Perkić
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003415:Crime / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D017523:Croatia; D004641:Emigration and Immigration / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D005555:Forensic Psychiatry; D006760:Hospitalization; D006778:Hospitals, Psychiatric; D006806:Human Rights / Q000592:standards; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000523:psychology; D028642:Persons with Psychiatric Disorders / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence / Q000523:psychology; D012036:Refugees / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data