Hundreds of refugee children in Sweden, who have fled with their families from extreme trauma, have become afflicted with 'uppgivenhetssyndrom,' or Resignation Syndrome. Facing deportation, they withdraw from the world into a coma-like state, as if frozen, for months, or even years.
Keywords:
Refugee
Childhood trauma
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Character: Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Character: Herself - Immigration Attorney
Character: Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Character: Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Character: Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)