Transcultural notes on the expression of anxiety in Greenland

In a previous article, we described the psychotic experiences of a number of<br/>Greenlandic patients (Alberdi F, Nørgaard Kjær J, 2025). In this article, we try to place the patients in their linguistic, cultural and historical context. This<br/>contextualization displays the challenges that patients may experience in contact<br/>with a Danish-speaking therapist. The anxiety and mental confusion associated<br/>with the “double bookkeeping” of psychotic experiences, where the patient exists<br/>simultaneously in the common and in their private reality, will be reinforced in<br/>the confrontation with therapists with a different linguistic and cultural code.<br/>Despite those difficulties, the patient’s necessary mental integration process can<br/>take place in a respectful emotional exchange between patients and therapists.