After a brief introduction into some existentialanalytic points of view of the body and of conversion syndrome the actual socio-cultural situation of the migrant workers is explained with many details. For the understanding of the meaning of the conversion symptoms it is necessary to search for the existential concept of the patient which is actually in danger. The therapeutic procedure following this concept is demonstrated on the base of four clinical cases.

intercultural psychotherapy Migration existentialanalytic psychotherapy conversion syndrome

psychological aspect methodology human Life Change Events life event object relation Object Attachment priority journal hysteria psychotherapy male case report Acculturation female Existentialism conversion disorder cultural factor psychoanalysis Psychoanalytic Therapy Article Support, Non-U.S. Gov't adult migration Transients and Migrants Middle Age English Abstract