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Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos
A psychiatry trainee reflects on a period of work on the Greek island of Samos with the international medical non-governmental organisation Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, providing mental health and psychosocial support to asylum seekers. The clinic provided services to asylum see...
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2023
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2022.3 |
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description | A psychiatry trainee reflects on a period of work on the Greek island of Samos with the international medical non-governmental organisation Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, providing mental health and psychosocial support to asylum seekers. The clinic provided services to asylum seekers who were living in a crowded refugee camp, many of whom were experiencing symptoms of severe mental illness. The author reflects on the nature and severity of these presentations, and questions the role of psychiatry in treating mental illness that is clearly exacerbated by circumstances resulting from European asylum policies. |
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spelling | pubmed-99094432023-02-14 Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos Solera-Deuchar, Lindsay BJPsych Int Global Echoes A psychiatry trainee reflects on a period of work on the Greek island of Samos with the international medical non-governmental organisation Medécins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders, providing mental health and psychosocial support to asylum seekers. The clinic provided services to asylum seekers who were living in a crowded refugee camp, many of whom were experiencing symptoms of severe mental illness. The author reflects on the nature and severity of these presentations, and questions the role of psychiatry in treating mental illness that is clearly exacerbated by circumstances resulting from European asylum policies. Cambridge University Press 2023-02 /pmc/articles/PMC9909443/ /pubmed/36812030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2022.3 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Global Echoes Solera-Deuchar, Lindsay Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos |
title | Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos |
title_full | Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos |
title_fullStr | Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos |
title_full_unstemmed | Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos |
title_short | Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos |
title_sort | reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the greek island of samos |
topic | Global Echoes |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9909443/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36812030 http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/bji.2022.3 |
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