Citation

Mollica RF, Wyshak G, Lavelle J. Am. J. Psychiatry 1987; 144(12): 1567-1572.

Affiliation

Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston 02114.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1987, American Psychiatric Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

3688280

Abstract

More than 700,000 refugees from Southeast Asia have settled in the United States since 1975. Although many have suffered serious trauma, including torture, few clinical reports have described their trauma-related symptoms and psychosocial problems. The authors conducted a treatment study of 52 patients in a clinic for Indochinese. They found that these patients were a highly traumatized group; each had experienced a mean of 10 traumatic events and two torture experiences. Many of the patients had concurrent diagnoses of major affective disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder as well as medical and social disabilities associated with their history of trauma. The authors also found that Cambodian women without spouses demonstrated more serious psychiatric and social impairments than all other Indochinese patient groups.

Language: en