Citation

Hanewald B, Gieseking J, Vogelbusch O, Markus I, Gallhofer B, Knipper M. Psychiatr. Prax. 2015; 43(3): 165-171.

Vernacular Title

Asylrecht und psychische Gesundheit: Eine interdisziplinäre Analyse des Zusammenwirkens medizinischer und juristischer Aspekte.

Affiliation

Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, AG Kultur, Migration & Global Health, Justus-Liebig-Universität Gießen.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, Georg Thieme Verlag)

DOI

10.1055/s-0035-1552730

PMID

26488260

Abstract

OBJECTIVE: Interdisciplinary analysis of the consequences of laws and legal practice for mental health conditions of asylum seekers and psychiatric care.

METHODS: Based on the case study of a Kurdish woman with complex trauma-related psychiatric disorder, who had been in psychiatric hospital care for 25 months, the legal and medical facts are exposed, followed by a discussion referring to theoretical approaches from medical anthropology.

RESULTS: Immigration laws and legal practice can have harmful consequences, which can be interpreted as "structural violence".

CONCLUSION: In case of traumatized refugees, the coaction of legal and medical aspects has to be acknowledged seriously by the medical, legal and political parts involved.

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