Individual, collective, and transgenerational traumatization in the Yazidi

BMC Medicine

Commentary

Michael Noll-Hussong¹  Jan Ilhan Kizilhan² 

[1] Department of Psychosomatic Medicine and Psychotherapy, University of Ulm, Albert-Einstein-Allee 23, D-89081, Ulm, Germany;Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Villingen-Schwenningen, Friedrich-Ebert-Strasse 30, D-78054, Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany;

关键词: Yazidi;    Post-traumatic stress disorder;    Abuse history;    Mental health;    Somatic symptom disorder;    Transcultural psychiatry;    Non-communicable diseases;    Migrants;    Refugees;    Terrorism;   

DOI  :  10.1186/s12916-017-0965-7

 received in 2017-09-19, accepted in 2017-10-25,  发布年份 2017

来源: Springer

【 摘 要 】

In recent years, Islamic terrorism has manifested itself with an unexpectedly destructive force. Despite the fact that Islamic terrorism commences locally in most cases, it has spread its terror worldwide. In August 2014, when troops of the self-proclaimed ‘Islamic State’ conquered areas of northern Iraq, they turned on the long-established religious minorities in the area with tremendous brutality, especially towards the Yazidis. Vast numbers of men were executed, and women and children were abducted and willfully subjected to sexual violence. With the aim of systematic destruction of the Yazidi community, the religious minority was to be eliminated and the will of the victims broken. The medical and mental health issues arising from the combination of subjective, collective, and cultural traumatization, as well as the subsequent migrant and refugee crisis, are therefore extraordinary and require novel and wise concepts of integrated medical care.

【 授权许可】

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© The Author(s). 2017