Migratory experience, mental health and offender behaviour in a perspective of community psychiatry

Abstract

Starting from the connections between the emigration and the onset of psychopathological problems, the Authors underline the meaning of a global point of view, focused not just on the clinical diagnosis, but most on individuals and their own histories, often marked by conflicts. This approach requires deep changes in cultures, practices and organization of community psychiatry facilities.
Criminal behaviours, liable to an anthropological evolution in clinical frames, are studied in detail, as well as the treatment of offender patients.