15:30 Workshop 3 September 1999
| Language and silence from Russian Jewish Immigrants |
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| The change of environment for the newly arrived Russian Jews to Germany resulted in culture shock. Both with the language and with integration. This has led to the emergence, in some cases, of schizophrenia and psychosomatic illnesses, which is borne out by evidence from case histories. To prevent the occurrence of these psycho-social problems steps have been taken to help this particular group of immigrants. |
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| Nina Degen was born in 1954. Between 1971 and 1988 she studied and trained in St. Petersburg. After moving to Former West Germany in 1989, she specialised in psychiatry and psychotherapy. Since 1996 she has been the head of the Clinic for Psychosomatic illnesses in Bad Soden. There she has specialised in treating Russians and Jewish patients who have suffered violence and addiction as well as those who have survived the Holocaust. She is one of the co-founders of The German association of Jewish health care professionals and is also involved in the European Network of Jewish health organisations. She has 32 academic publications to her name, largely concerned with the holocaust and has published articles on "Psychosocial problems of Russian immigrants to Germany"(1997), "Self-worth and illness"(1998) and "My work in Germany" (1999) |
