Transcultural Psychiatry

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The meaning of transcultural psychiatry defined since Eric David Wittkower (1972) reads: “Transcultural psychiatry is the branch of psychiatry that deals with the cultural aspects of etiology, the frequency and type of mental illnesses as well as with the treatment and follow-up treatment of illnesses within a The term “transcultural psychiatry”, which is an extension of cultural psychiatry , means that the scientific observer should look beyond the area of ​​a cultural unit to include other cultural areas in order to sharpen his understanding of a culturally different group of people. Insofar as the transcultural psychiatry has similar approaches as the from an anthropological point of view Ethno psychiatry or ethnopsychoanalysis represents.

Distinctions

Transcultural psychiatry differs from comparative psychiatry in that the latter compares the various diseases with one another and does not place so much emphasis on the understanding of the individual affected.

Beginnings of transcultural psychiatry

The founder of transcultural psychiatry was Emil Kraepelin , who wrote a corresponding psychiatric report on the occasion of the Buitenzorg institution in Java, which he visited in 1904 . Similar work was carried out in Paris in 1905 by Edouard Jeanselme, who attended the same institution as Kraepelin, which was converted into a colonie agricole by the Dutch in 1881. This facility was operated without any coercive measures.

Questions

Transcultural competence in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics:

  • Does migration make you sick per se ?
  • Is every symptom of a migrant an indication that migration has occurred?
  • Diagnosis, therapy - selection and course (psychopharmacological and psychotherapeutic therapy) from the perspective of transcultural psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics
  • Dealing with migration-specific issues in medicine, especially in psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder : diagnosis and therapy from the perspective of transcultural psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics
  • Knowledge of asylum and residence law when dealing with mentally ill migrants
  • Qualified interaction with interpreters as part of the diagnosis and psychotherapeutic work
  • Test procedures and their use in psychiatry from a transcultural point of view
  • Ethnomedical issues
  • Regular participation in advanced training courses in the field of transcultural psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosomatics

literature

  • The context of migration, social medicine, public health and culture in 80 key words , in Curare. Journal for Ethnomedicine and Transcultural Psychiatry , 29, H. 2–3, 2006, pp. 195–234
  • Wielant Machleidt et al. (Ed.): Sonnenberger guidelines. Integration of migrants in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Experiences and concepts in Germany and Europe . Publishing house for science and education VWB, Berlin 2006 ISBN 3-86135-293-1 (= Forum Migration, Health, Integration, 4)
  • Hansjörg Assion (ed.): Migration and mental health . Springer, Heidelberg 2005 ISBN 3-540-20218-8
  • Solmaz Golsabahi, Thomas Heise (ed.): Of similarities and differences. VWB, Berlin ISBN 978-3-86135-187-0
  • Thomas Eberhard Heise (Ed.): Transcultural counseling, psychotherapy and psychiatry in Germany. 2. corr. Edition VWB, Berlin 2002 ISBN 3-86135-138-2
  • Ernestine Wohlfart, Manfred Zaumzeil: Transcultural Psychiatry - Intercultural Psychotherapy. Interdisciplinary theory and practice. Springer, Heidelberg 2006
  • Thomas Lux (Ed.): Cultural Dimensions of Medicine. Ethnomedicine - Medical Anthropology . Reimer, Berlin 2003 ISBN 3-496-02766-5
  • Hannes Stubbe: Lexicon of Ethnopsychology and Transcultural Psychology . IKO-Verlag for intercultural communication, Frankfurt 2005 ISBN 3-88939-746-8
  • Thomas Heise (Ed.) Book series: Das transkulturelle Psychoforum , 20 Bde. Verlag

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Uwe Henrik Peters : Dictionary of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology . Urban & Schwarzenberg, Munich 3 1984; "Psychiatry, transcultural": p. 436, "Psychiatry, comparative": p. 436, "Ethnopsychiatry": p. 185
  2. ^ Kraepelin: Psychiatric from Java . 1904
  3. ↑ Edouard Jeanselme: La Condition of Aliénés dans les Colonies Françaises, Anglaises et Néerlandaises d_Extreme-Orient . La Presse Médicale, online on 9 August 1905