Electronic Resource
Springer
European archives of psychiatry and clinical neuroscience
244 (1994), S. 126-130
ISSN:
1433-8491
Keywords:
Late paraphrenia
;
Early-life trauma
;
Uprooting
;
Expulsion
Source:
Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
Topics:
Medicine
Notes:
Abstract Biographical information was collected on 60 patients suffering from late-onset (〉50 years) paranoid psychosis (with and without hallucinations), 38 by chart review and 22 by personal examination. Of the pateints 28 (47%) had been war refugees expelled from the eastern territories that Germany lost after World War II. This is more than twice the rate of the Bavarian general population. The onset of paranoid symptoms was usually 3 or 4 decades after immigration into western Germany. Among patients with Alzheimer's disease and with endogeneous depression the proportion of former war refugees was significantly lower (22% each). The possible relevance of early uprooting and expulsion to the development of latelife paranoid psychosis is examined.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/BF02191885
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