Group Analysis
Volume 30, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 217-232

Group psychotherapy with immigrants from Turkey (Article)

Battegay R.* , Tarik Yilmaz A. , Husemann K.
  • a Kantonsspital, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
  • b Kantonsspital, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland
  • c Kantonsspital, Petersgraben 4, CH-4031 Basel, Switzerland

Abstract

Group psychotherapy with immigrants from Turkey began in Switzerland at the University Psychiatric Outpatient Department, Basel, 1991. At this time two groups were formed for depressed Turkish patients with psychosomatic symptoms: a women's group in November 1991, and a men's group in January 1992. The need for psychotherapeutic care stemmed from the large number of immigrants in this city who came from Turkey beginning in the late 1960s but particularly in the late 1970s. The authors describe the psychodynamics and psychopathological aspects of the members during the group process, and the impact of the phenomenon of migration on them and on the stages of group psychotherapy.

Author Keywords

Turkey 'We'-feeling 'I'-feeling Immigration Group psychotherapy

Index Keywords

male Turkey (republic) female group therapy depression immigrant outpatient department psychodynamics Article mental disease psychosomatics Switzerland human adult
Link
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-0030748474&doi=10.1177%2f0533316497302006&partnerID=40&md5=58cd6fbdbe37353e960e211368c95959
DOI: 10.1177/0533316497302006
ISSN: 05333164
Cited by: 2
Original Language: English