Psychotic Anxiety in Greenland - Experience and meaning

The article focuses on different experiences and expressions of psychotic anxiety<br/>in Greenland. We present a comprehensive understanding of the patients`<br/>experiences as meaning creating and suffering. In this attempt, we make use of<br/>the phenomenological, psychoanalytical and existential psychological framework<br/>of understanding. We emphasize the significant differences as well as the<br/>fundamental similarities between the psychotic and the non-psychotic person.<br/>We argue against the claim that only the patient as a person can be psychotic and<br/>not the symptoms as such. On the contrary, we believe that the patients in their<br/>humanity are much more complex and richly faceted than their psychotic<br/>symptoms suggest.<br/>In a following article, we identify the patients` experiences in a linguistic,<br/>cultural and historic context.