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6.4
Life Overtakes Me
PG
26 Jan 2019
0 hr 39 mins
Documentary
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.
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Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Herself - Immigration Attorney
Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Himself - Author and Journalist
Herself - Child Psychologist, Professor Emerita, Uppsala University (as Anne-Liis von Knorring MD)
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