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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2023-02-01
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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 | doaj.art-52d4fec0499c4a03b5c7abea90278a922023-08-16T11:00:47ZengCambridge University PressBJPsych International2056-47402058-62642023-02-0120232510.1192/bji.2022.3Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of SamosLindsay Solera-Deuchar0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1688-2912MBBS, Psychiatrist, Medécins Sans Frontières, Vathy, Greece. Email: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.https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S2056474022000034/type/journal_articleRefugee mental healthinternational work in psychiatrytranscultural psychiatrypost-traumatic stress disorderdepressive disorders |
| spellingShingle | Lindsay Solera-Deuchar Reflections on mental healthcare for an asylum seeker population caught in limbo on the Greek island of Samos BJPsych International Refugee mental health international work in psychiatry transcultural psychiatry post-traumatic stress disorder depressive disorders |
| 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 | Refugee mental health international work in psychiatry transcultural psychiatry post-traumatic stress disorder depressive disorders |
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