[Factors and situations related to the onset of psychosomatic disorders in northern African patients in France].

Abstract

A clinical study of 60 people in two groups (patients and controls), using clinical interviews and a questionnaire, brought to light three series of obvious factors, directly related to the onset of psychosomatic disorders: 1) the disruption generated by transplantation; 2) the cultural make-up of personality; 3) a structural predisposition. Finally, we point out that this study is the partial transcription of a research topic treated in detail elsewhere.

• Authors: A T Ahami
• Journal: Annales medico-psychologiques (Ann Med Psychol (Paris)) 1991 Aug-Sep Vol. 149 Issue 7 Pg. 573-80 ISSN: 0003-4487 [Print] France
• Vernacular Title: Facteurs et situations impliqués dans l'apparition des désordres psychosomatiques chez les malades nord-Africains en France.
• PMID: 1772197 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Africa, Northern (ethnology)
• Cultural Characteristics
• Ethnicity (psychology)
• France
• Humans
• Interview, Psychological
• Psychophysiologic Disorders (etiology, psychology)
• Surveys and Questionnaires
• Transients and Migrants (psychology)