What is the experience of the migrant? Psychiatrist Joseba Atxotegi argues that for every story of success in a new homeland, there are untold pressures and stressors on individual migrants, the effect of which are often perceived as mental illness. In Ulysses Syndrome, Atxotegi offers “a complete vision of Basque migrations [including] psychological and psychosocial perspective[s]." Using the lens of Homer’s Odyssey, Atxotegi describes the plight of migrants as one plagued with uncertainty and fear, where they might “find themselves seated on the banks of a river that is not theirs [...] and looking vainly out toward the ocean that has brought them to this land.” Rather than pathologize this experience as a form of mental illness, the study instead recontextualizes the anguish felt by migrants as “Ulysses Syndrome” ― an internalized state brought on by combined external factors including cultural incongruity, state repression, or involuntary exile. In its nuanced depiction of a this particular form of alienation, Ulysses Syndrome offers new modes of recuperation and restitution for those struggling with migration's legacies.

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Joseba Atxotegi is former secretary of transcultural section of the World Psychiatric Association, psychiatrist, tenured professor of the University of Barcelona, professor at the University of Berkeley from 2005 to 2019, and guest professor at other universities in places such as Stanford University, Tokyo, New York, Paris, Oxford, and King’s College of London. He is director of a postgraduate online course “Mental Health and Psychological Interventions with Immigrants, Minorities and the Socially Excluded” at the University of Barcelona in collaboration with the Paris V University and Berkeley University director of SAPPIR (Servicio de Atenci�n Psicopatol�gica y Psicosocial a Inmigrantes y Refugiados) of Hospital Sant Pere Claver in Barcelona. The year 2002 has described Ulysses Syndrome as an immigrant syndrome with chronic and multiple stresses. He serves as coordinator of Athena Network, a global network for the psychosocial help for immigrants living in extreme situations. His blog is “Salud mental en tiempos dif�ciles” in Publico Newspaper.

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