Major depression across West Bank: A cross-sectional general population study

Madianos, Michael G.; Sarhan, Adnan Lutfi; Koukia, Evmorfia

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“…Findings indicated that a significant proportion (43%) of the sample of Palestinian adult refugees living in Jordan had symptoms of major depression. In the literature, 4% of the Jordanian general adult population in 2015 had depression (WHO, ), and 8% and 11% of Palestinian adult refugees living in Lebanon (Llosa et al., ) and the Occupied Palestinian Territory of West Bank (Madianos et al., ), respectively, had depression. In contrast to neighboring host countries and the occupied Palestinian territories, Jordan is a relatively peaceful and politically stable country (CIA, ).…”

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“…In neighboring countries to Jordan, 19% of Palestinian adult refugees in Lebanon were found to have mental health disorders, with 8% having depression (Llosa et al., ). The prevalence of depression was 11% among Palestinian adult refugees in the Occupied Palestinian Territory of the West Bank (Madianos, Sarhan, & Koukia, ). Depression has significant health, social, and financial impacts on individuals and society, particularly in conflict‐affected populations (Ayer et al., ).…”

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Depression, Perceived Health, and Right‐of‐Return Hopefulness of Palestinian Refugees

Alduraidi

Waters

2017

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Depression, Perceived Health, and Right‐of‐Return Hopefulness of Palestinian Refugees

Alduraidi

Waters

2017

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“…If we accept Kristeva's point, might we then read that which is accounted for as “individual depression” in Madianos et al. () as melancholy at the collective level? Making such a bold move from the affliction of the individual psyche should not be seen as a collective diagnosis of the Palestinians. Rather, as proposed by Didier Fassin and Richard Rechtman (), the conceptualization of Palestinian distress through psychiatric diagnosis fails to capture how people are marked by the occupation and how they counter it through local idioms of heroism, and, indeed, Sumud .…”

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“…For instance, a study conducted after the Second Intifada (2000–2003) concluded that 51.3 percent of the adult Palestinian population suffers from Post‐Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD), comorbid with Moderate Depression (Madianos et al. ).…”

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“…Kristeva writes, that “according to classic psychoanalytic theory (Abraham, Freud, and Melanie Klein), depression, like mourning, conceals an aggressiveness toward the lost object, thus revealing the ambivalence of the depressed person with respect to the object of mourning” (:11). Kristeva's assertion that depression and melancholia are fundamentally akin through their ambivalent attachment to the lost object offers an interesting reading of Madianos et al.’s () conclusion that approximately half of the adult population in Palestine suffers from depression. If we accept Kristeva's point, might we then read that which is accounted for as “individual depression” in Madianos et al.…”

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Ambivalent Attachment — Melancholia and Political Activism in Contemporary Palestine

Segal¹

2016

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This article argues that over the course of the past three decades a mood change has occurred in terms of how Palestinians relate to the ideal of an independent Palestinian state. During the first Intifada, from 1987 to 1993, which constitutes the golden age of Palestinian resistance towards Israel's occupation, the Palestinian resistance movement was characterized by a passionate belief in the possibility of a revolutionary transformation. Due to the consistent stalemate and even worsening of the conflict that have followed in the wake of the Second Intifada, from 2000 to 2003, this passionate belief in the realization of a Palestinian state has been replaced by ambivalence toward that ideal. Based on insights from my intermittent fieldwork with families of Palestinian political prisoners from 2004 to 2011, this article suggests that the contemporary ambivalence surrounding the revolutionary project can be meaningfully analyzed using Freud's notion of melancholia. In Freud, melancholia accounts for the relation between a feeling of indeterminate loss and ambivalent attachment. The notion of melancholia thereby provides anthropology with a concept that can be used to name and explore the frayed attachment to the ideal of a Palestinian state in the context of an ongoing colonial occupation. The passionate politics of the First Intifada enabled a fusing of Palestinian personhood with the overall political project into a subject characterized by active resistance. In contrast, the ambivalent attachment that marks the link between self and state project in the Palestinian territories after the Second Intifada leads to a mood of melancholia. By analyzing the attachment to the political project as an indeterminate loss in the melancholic's ego, I argue that the Palestinian political project is part of the self and keeps its adherents in a repetitive temporal fold from which they are unable to escape, because they are obliged and compelled to keep fighting for a state that does not seem to materialize. Conceptually, melancholia has the capacity to elucidate the emotional and deeply intersubjective toll it takes to live and aspire to an ideal that seems further from realization by the hour.

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Contextualizing Cognitions: the Relation Between Negative Post-traumatic Cognitions and Post-traumatic Stress Among Palestinian Refugees

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Negative post-traumatic cognitions (PTC) are a relevant factor in the development, persistence, and treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Palestinian refugees live under challenging circumstances and have negative future prospects, so negative cognitions might be expected to prevail. It is uncertain whether findings on the relation between PTC and PTSD in other (non-refugee) populations can be generalized to the Palestinian refugee context. The first objective was to examine the degree to which endorsement of PTC in this sample differed from the endorsement observed in other samples. The second objective was to investigate whether PTC explain variance in PTSD symptomatology and are predictive of PTSD diagnostic status. In Palestinian refugees (N = 85, 51.8% female), PTSD symptoms and negative cognitions were assessed. One sample t tests and multiple logistic regression analyses were performed. Total PTC scores were significantly higher in the Palestinian sample than in reference samples. Negative cognitions explained significant variance in PTSD symptoms and probable diagnostic status. Findings support the relevance of PTC for PTSD symptoms and diagnosis in a Palestinian refugee sample, in line with the cognitive model for PTSD. This is especially relevant for researchers and clinicians working with refugees in conflict areas.

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Major depression across West Bank: A cross-sectional general population study

Abstract: This study provides evidence that a population under continuous strain and apprehension, living in unremitting socioeconomic deprivation, is more likely to suffer from major depression.

Cited by 19 publications

References 35 publications

Depression, Perceived Health, and Right‐of‐Return Hopefulness of Palestinian Refugees

Depression, Perceived Health, and Right‐of‐Return Hopefulness of Palestinian Refugees

Ambivalent Attachment — Melancholia and Political Activism in Contemporary Palestine

Contextualizing Cognitions: the Relation Between Negative Post-traumatic Cognitions and Post-traumatic Stress Among Palestinian Refugees

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