Abstract
Candidates for emigration are susceptible to a psychotic breakdown accompanied by feelings of guilt arising from abandoning their community of origin. The elimination of this guilt involves, essentially, a denial of identity with a touch of megalomania which makes treatment difficult.
MeSH terms
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Adult
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Anxiety, Separation / complications
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Anxiety, Separation / ethnology*
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Anxiety, Separation / therapy
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Attitude to Health / ethnology*
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Delusions / ethnology*
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Delusions / etiology
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Delusions / therapy
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Denial, Psychological
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Emigrants and Immigrants / psychology*
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Guilt
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Humans
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Male
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Self Concept
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Senegal / ethnology
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Social Identification
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Spain