Niecke, Alexander (2021). Mental health of people with thalidomide embryopathy Traumatic shadow of prenatal thalidomide exposure. Psychotherapeut, 66 (6). S. 518 - 524. NEW YORK: SPRINGER. ISSN 1432-2080
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Background Sixty years after prenatal thalidomide-induced damage, the clinical picture of people with disabilities caused by thalidomide is characterized by diverse biopsychosocial sequelae. Objective How can the high degree of mental health disorders that only become manifest in the second half of life be better understood? Material and method Literature review on the current status of empirical research with a discussion of further questions. Results People with the most severe thalidomide-induced disabilities showed a remarkable ability to compensate for their disabilities for decades. A very high level of education and good occupational and social integration were achieved over many years. In the more recent past, however, an increasing level of social disintegration has been observed. For the first time, a high rate of mental health disorders has been reported, accompanied by barriers in access to psychotherapeutic care. Conclusion The high incidence of mental health disorders in old age can be seen on the one hand as cases of multidimensional traumatization partly already acquired prenatally and on the other hand as a chronic selective disregard of the mental health dimension in favor of a single stigmatization. It is important not only for those directly affected that the case of thalidomide be retained in the collective memory.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-566443 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00278-021-00536-z | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Psychotherapeut | ||||||||
| Volume: | 66 | ||||||||
| Number: | 6 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | S. 518 - 524 | ||||||||
| Date: | 2021 | ||||||||
| Publisher: | SPRINGER | ||||||||
| Place of Publication: | NEW YORK | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 1432-2080 | ||||||||
| Language: | German | ||||||||
| Faculty: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Unspecified | ||||||||
| Subjects: | no entry | ||||||||
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| URI: | http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/56644 |
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