A new hypothesis about increased rates of schizophrenia among migrants

Autor:	Giorgi Geleishvili
Rok vydání:	2015
Předmět:	Unconscious mind Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming) Emigrants and Immigrants Analytical psychology Mental illness medicine.disease Psychiatry and Mental health Psyche Mental Health Personal unconscious Schizophrenia medicine Humans Local population Psychology Parallels Social psychology
Zdroj:	International Journal of Social Psychiatry. 61:433-435
ISSN:	1741-2854 0020-7640
DOI:	10.1177/0020764015592469
Popis:	Various studies have indicated that migrants tend to have higher than expected rates of mental illness than those who do not migrate. Furthermore, various hypotheses have been put forward and they cannot effectively explain this differential. These have been discussed in the recent WPA report (Bhugra et al., 2011). Each hypothesis adds something to our understanding of the phenomena that migrants have higher incidence of schizophrenia in comparison to local population. Another hypothesis which may contribute to this debate is that can be based on ideas offered by analytical psychology. Analytical psychology assumes that unconscious psyche consists of personal and impersonal – collective layers (Jung, 1986, Vol. 8: paras 588–591). All biographical elements fall into personal unconscious. But one finds also unconscious material which is not derived from individual’s experience. Such motives show parallels with old rites, philosophical views, religious beliefs and so on and are named as archetypal. Here are two examples of archetypal ideas
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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