The Narcissistic Injury and Psychopathology of Migration: The Case of a Nicaraguan Man |
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Authors: | Efrain A. Gonzalez Ruby A. Natale Claudia Pimentel Robert C. Lane |
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Affiliation: | (1) Jackson Medical Center, Division of Psychology, Mental Health Hosp. Ctr., University of Miami, Miami, FL, 33136 |
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Abstract: | Cultural and ethnic issues commonly surface as important therapeutic themes among many minority patients. Identity formation, self-concept, perception, and the effects of migration on the aetiology of psychiatric symptomatology are reviewed. Trauma resulting from migration, stress, and prolonged affect-laden situations in the precipitation and onset of physical disease and illness is discussed. A clinical presentation of a 68-year-old Nicaraguan man is presented to highlight the aforementioned issues, i.e., traumatization, the development of psychopathology, and the onset of physical illness as a result of forced migration. |
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