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Addressing Mental Health Needs of Balkan Refugees
M. J. Friedrich
JAMA. 1999;282:422-423.
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"Memory can redeem the past, it can transfigure history, however painful, into another pattern."—T. S. Eliot, Four Quartets
Chicago—Escaping a homeland poisoned by war and ethnic cleansing, Bosnian refugees arrived in the United States in the early 1990s to forge new lives. But not all terrors were left behind. Concealed amid their few belongings were traumatic memories of displacement, combat, concentration camps, and rape.
In the wake of such horrific experiences, survivors need access to adequate mental health services, but care must fit the people's needs and circumstances, said Stevan Weine, MD, a professor of psychiatry at the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Medicine. Much remains to be learned about ways to help people who've been through such terrible experiences, he added.
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Displacement to refugee camps, such as this one in Blace, Macedonia, is one of the traumatic memories refugees will need to come . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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Mental Health Among Bosnian Refugees
Coyne et al.
JAMA 2000;283:55-56.
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