L'étranger et la mise en question des soins en santé mentale aux Pays-Bas

As much of the distress linked to emigration and the loss of social roots is expressed in psychic problems, institutions of mental health become places where the society and the people concerned manifest the effects of social crisis. The psychiatrization-medicalization of social existence is a consequence. The case of African immigrants having fled their country for political reasons calls into question the social and political values determining institutional practices relative to the mental health care given to immigrants. The experience of the Maastricht Regional Center provides new individual and group techniques in this regard

Political science · Health, Medicine and Society · Healthcare Systems and Practices · Migration, Identity, and Health · Philosophy