“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
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.
Video of Dr Achotegui participation on Publico Television in the Debate “In defence of the right to mental health, December 1”
Mental health is not reassurance, it is active adaptation. Covid-19 Biopolitics.
The great crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic is placing biopolitical approaches more than ever at the centre of the social debate. And mental health is a relevant aspect of this debate.
The great crisis of the Covid-19 pandemic is placing biopolitical approaches more than ever at the centre of the social debate. And mental health is a relevant aspect of this debate.
Lecture by Dr Achotegui on Ulysses Syndrome at the XV Summer School of the University of Berkeley 2020. Protecting Migrants and Refugees during pandemics.
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.