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Mejor dejarlo tranquilo: Vivir con un familiar psicótico en Nicaragua

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    Identifier: PC:1281
    Handle: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11797/PC1281
    Authors:
    Rimke van der Geest
    Abstract:
    This book is based on an anthropological study and on social care work carried out in the Nicaraguan city of Matagalpa. Over the course of five years, the author regularly visited families in which one or more members had developed a psychotic disorder during adolescence. This book relates the moving stories of four of these families. The stories describe poverty, violence and the fruitless search for a cure. The title Better leave him alone refers to a survival strategy that the families, after years of struggling, have been forced to adopt simply in order to make each day bearable. In addition to the families, the book also gives a voice to the care assistants and other people in the families’ immediate surroundings. In this way the reader can begin to understand the level of help available for psychotic patients and what society thinks of them. Finally, the author describes how, together with the families, an organisation is created to face the challenges posed by psychosis and the problems that it brings with it. The publication of this book aims to provide students, professionals and legislators with a picture of the problem in Nicaragua regarding psychosis. The book also offers a defence of psychiatric care in the home and the involvement of family members in the treatment of patients with psychosis.

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    Department: Altres organs de gestió
    Repository ingest date: 2016-03-31
    Abstract: This book is based on an anthropological study and on social care work carried out in the Nicaraguan city of Matagalpa. Over the course of five years, the author regularly visited families in which one or more members had developed a psychotic disorder during adolescence. This book relates the moving stories of four of these families. The stories describe poverty, violence and the fruitless search for a cure. The title Better leave him alone refers to a survival strategy that the families, after years of struggling, have been forced to adopt simply in order to make each day bearable. In addition to the families, the book also gives a voice to the care assistants and other people in the families’ immediate surroundings. In this way the reader can begin to understand the level of help available for psychotic patients and what society thinks of them. Finally, the author describes how, together with the families, an organisation is created to face the challenges posed by psychosis and the problems that it brings with it. The publication of this book aims to provide students, professionals and legislators with a picture of the problem in Nicaragua regarding psychosis. The book also offers a defence of psychiatric care in the home and the involvement of family members in the treatment of patients with psychosis. Este libro está basado en un estudio antropológico y una labor de asistencia social en la ciudad nicaraguënse de Matagalpa. Durante cinco años la autora visitó regularmente a familias en las que uno o más familiares han desarrollado un trastorno psicótico en la pubertad. Aquí se narran las conmovedoras historias de cuatro de estas familias. Tratan de pobreza, violencia y la búsqueda en vano de una cura. El título Mejor dejarlo tranquilo hace referencia a una estrategia de supervivencia que los familiares, después de años de lucha, se han visto obligados a adoptar para poder pasar los días de la forma más llevadera posible. Además de los familiares, también hablan los asistentes de salud y otras personas del entorno. Así el lector se puede hacer una idea de la ayuda de que disponen los pacientes psicóticos y lo que la sociedad piensa de ellos. Finalmente describe la autora como, junto con las familias, se llega a constituir una organización para hacer frente a la psicosis y a los problemas que esta conlleva. La publicación de este libro tiene como objetivo dar a estudiantes, profesionales y legisladores una visión de la problemática que hay en Nicaragua relacionada con la psicosis. El libro es, además, un alegato a favor de la atención psiquiátrica en el hogar y el involucrar a los familiares en el tratamiento de los pacientes psicóticos.
    Access rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
    Thematic Areas: Antropologia Mèdica
    Language: Castellà
    Licence document URL: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
    Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/book
 Llibres electrònics
    Author: Rimke van der Geest
    Document URL: http://llibres.urv.cat/index.php/purv/catalog/book/52
    Published by (editorial): Publicacions de la Universitat Rovira i Virgili:
    Document name: Mejor dejarlo tranquilo: Vivir con un familiar psicótico en Nicaragua
    ISBN: 978-84-694-3787-2
    Book publication year: 2011