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Acute Psychotic Reactions in Immigrants

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Roland Littlewood  and
Maurice Lipsedge
Roland Littlewood
Affiliation:
Hackney Hospital
Maurice Lipsedge
Affiliation:
St Bartholomew's Hospital
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Studies of West Indian and West African immigrants have consistently shown high rates of diagnosed schizophrenia, although they differ in the extent to which the illness is seen as atypical. A retrospective examination of hospital notes at an East London Psychiatric Unit showed that although total admissions were similar in different ethnic groups there was an excess of schizophrenia in Caribbean and West African migrants similar to that found previously. These patients also showed an increase in two pathoplastic features, religious and paranoid flavour and an increased proportion of women, formal admissions and short admissions.

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Annual Meeting 1977: Abstracts of Papers
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Bulletin of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , Volume 1 , Issue 5 , November 1977 , pp. 5 - 6
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