Psychiatr Prax. 2001 May; 28(4): 193-7.

[Psychogenic seizures: domain for a hoca?]

Kardels B, PÃƒÂ©rez GonzÃƒÂ¡lez P, Beine KH.

St. Marien-Hospital Hamm Klinik für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie Lehrstuhl für Psychiatrie und Psychotherapie, Universität Witten-Herdecke Knappenstrasse 19, 59071 Hamm. marienhospital-hamm-psych@web.de

We report a case of an 18 year old female Turkish patient, who was suffering from psychogenic seizures. The family did not accept the disease, prohibited treatment by a medical doctor, preferred to bring her to a Hoca. She was maltreated by her father und sexually abused at the age of eight years by her brother. In this article we describe the problems of a psychiatric ill female patient within a family of Turkish origin.