Home-Sickness and Immigrant Psychoses. Austrian and German Domestic Servants the Basis of Study | Journal of Mental Science | Cambridge Core (original) (raw)

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Home-sickness springs from the conflict between family ties and herd or group feelings, and among immigrants, such as those Austrian and German domestic servants working in London, the nostalgic reaction may lead to certifiable mental disorder. The present study concerns forty cases of this kind who, between 1931 and 1937, came under my care at Friern Hospital.

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Part I.—Original Articles

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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1938

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