Sakit Hati: A state of chronic mental distress related to resentment and anger amongst West Papuan refugees exposed to persecution

Social Science and Medicine

Volumn 73, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 103-110

  Rees, Susan ^a   Silove, Derrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Anger; Australia; Conflict affected communities; Human rights; Idiom of distress; Injustice; Persecution; Psychiatric classification; West Papua

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; HUMAN RIGHTS; MENTAL HEALTH; PSYCHOLOGY; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; REFUGEE; SOCIAL JUSTICE;

ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANGER; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHRONIC DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EMOTIONALITY; ETHNIC GROUP; HUMAN; HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSE; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PHENOMENOLOGY; POLITICS; REFUGEE; RESENTMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION; SOCIAL JUSTICE; WEST PAPUAN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANGER; CHRONIC DISEASE; HUMAN RIGHTS; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS AS TOPIC; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; PAPUA NEW GUINEA; PREJUDICE; QUEENSLAND; REFUGEES; YOUNG ADULT;

INDONESIA; WEST PAPUA;

EID: 79959592221     PISSN: 02779536     EISSN: 18735347     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2011.05.004     Document Type: Article

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