Title |
Individual, collective, and transgenerational traumatization in the Yazidi
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Published in |
BMC Medicine, December 2017
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DOI | 10.1186/s12916-017-0965-7 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Jan Ilhan Kizilhan, Michael Noll-Hussong |
Abstract |
In recent years, Islamic terrorism has manifested itself with an unexpectedly destructive force. Despite the fact that Islamic terrorism commences locally in most cases, it has spread its terror worldwide. In August 2014, when troops of the self-proclaimed 'Islamic State' conquered areas of northern Iraq, they turned on the long-established religious minorities in the area with tremendous brutality, especially towards the Yazidis. Vast numbers of men were executed, and women and children were abducted and willfully subjected to sexual violence. With the aim of systematic destruction of the Yazidi community, the religious minority was to be eliminated and the will of the victims broken. The medical and mental health issues arising from the combination of subjective, collective, and cultural traumatization, as well as the subsequent migrant and refugee crisis, are therefore extraordinary and require novel and wise concepts of integrated medical care. |
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Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Germany | 3 | 18% |
United States | 2 | 12% |
Turkey | 1 | 6% |
Iraq | 1 | 6% |
Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of | 1 | 6% |
India | 1 | 6% |
United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |
Unknown | 7 | 41% |
Demographic breakdown
Type | Count | As % |
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Members of the public | 12 | 71% |
Scientists | 3 | 18% |
Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 1 | 6% |
Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 1 | 6% |
Mendeley readers
Geographical breakdown
Country | Count | As % |
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Unknown | 129 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
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Student > Master | 22 | 17% |
Student > Bachelor | 18 | 14% |
Researcher | 12 | 9% |
Student > Doctoral Student | 11 | 9% |
Student > Ph. D. Student | 10 | 8% |
Other | 18 | 14% |
Unknown | 38 | 29% |
Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
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Psychology | 35 | 27% |
Medicine and Dentistry | 18 | 14% |
Social Sciences | 17 | 13% |
Nursing and Health Professions | 9 | 7% |
Arts and Humanities | 4 | 3% |
Other | 5 | 4% |
Unknown | 41 | 32% |