“Today, for millions of people, the levels of stress associated with emigrating have reached such levels that they inhibit the ability of humans to adapt to the process. These people suffer the risk of Chronic and Multiple Stress Immigrant Syndrome or Ulysses Syndrome, the latter refers to the Greek hero who suffered innumerable adversities and dangers far from his loved ones.”
“Psychological help should not seek to normalise the person, but to free them from everything that makes it difficult for them to find their own way, as well as from the impediments that mental disorders cause.”
Dr Joseba Achotegui is a Professor of Psychotherapy techniques at the University of Barcelona and he is a psychiatrist. Specialist in psychotherapy, mental health and migration, community mental health and evolutionary psychology. He has been secretary of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association. Author of several books and habitual writer of a blog in the newspaper Público. He described the Ulysses Syndrome in 2002.
“Psychological help should not seek to normalise the person, but to free them from everything that makes it difficult for them to find their own way, as well as from the impediments that mental disorders cause.”
Today, for millions of people, the levels of stress associated with emigrating have reached such levels that they inhibit the ability of humans to adapt to the process. These people suffer the risk of Chronic and Multiple Stress Immigrant Syndrome or Ulysses Syndrome, the latter which refers to the Greek hero who suffered innumerable adversities and dangers far from his loved ones.
Dr Joseba Achotegui is Professor of Psychotherapy techniques at the University of Barcelona and he is a psychiatrist.
Specialist in psychotherapy, mental health and migration, community mental health and evolutionary psychology. He has been secretary of the Transcultural Section of the World Psychiatric Association. Author of several books and habitual writer of a blog in the newspaper Público. He described the Ulysses Syndrome in 2002.
Highlights
Highlights
In an extensive report, the BBC explains what Ulysses Syndrome consists of and offers immigrants valuable strategies to deal with and overcome it.
Dr Achotegui‘s class on Ulysses Syndrome at Stanford University School of Medicine on April 26, 2022.
Lecture of Dr Joseba Achotegui about assessment and intervention of Ulysses Syndrome in the XVI Summer School at the University of Berkeley, on Tuesday 29 June, 9 AM (California time).
Let’s not call the psychosocial discomfort generated by Covid-19 mental disorder. The discomfort and psychological suffering generated by the Covid-19 pandemic is being very great and can be considered risk factors for mental health.
Dr Joseba Achotegui participated in a session at the UN in New York on the family reunification of immigrants and Ulysses Syndrome.
Joseba Achotegui Books
(In English)
Joseba Achotegui Books
(In Spanish)
Original Title: Test de evaluación del estrés y el duelo migratorio. Test del Kayak.
Original Title: La inteligencia migratoria. Manual para inmigrantes en dificultades
Original Title: La inteligencia migratoria. Manual para inmigrantes en dificultades
Original Title: Cómo evaluar el estrés y el duelo migratorio. Escalas de evaluación de factores de riesgo en salud mental.
Original Title: Los trastornos mentales. Un enigmático legado de la evolución
Original Title: Los trastornos mentales. Un enigmático legado de la evolución
Original Title: Emigrar en el siglo XXI: estrés y duelo migratorio en el mundo de hoy – Síndrome de Ulises.