@article{ref1,
title="Asylum law and mental health: an interdisciplinary analysis of the coaction of medical and legal aspects",
journal="Psychiatrische Praxis",
year="2015",
author="Hanewald, Bernd and Gieseking, Janina and Vogelbusch, Oliver and Markus, Inessa and Gallhofer, Bernd and Knipper, Michael",
volume="43",
number="3",
pages="165-171",
abstract="OBJECTIVE: Interdisciplinary analysis of the consequences of laws and legal practice for mental health conditions of asylum seekers and psychiatric care. <br><br>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. <br><br>RESULTS: Immigration laws and legal practice can have harmful consequences, which can be interpreted as &quot;structural violence&quot;. <br><br>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.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0303-4259",
doi="10.1055/s-0035-1552730",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1055/s-0035-1552730"
}