Specific character of psychiatric problems among seafarers
Nitka, J.
Bulletin of the Institute of Maritime and Tropical Medicine in Gdynia 41(1-4): 47-51
1990
ISSN/ISBN: 0324-8542 PMID: 2135925 Document Number: 360191
The impact of specific working conditions on ships on the psyche of seafarers is discussed. The occupational exposures act upon the nervous system of a seafarer for a long time, for the duration of the voyage. The knowledge of these conditions is necessary for a psychiatrist to diagnose cases of nervous system diseases in seafarers, and to treat them. The author conciders justified to separate a sub-specialty in psychiatry--the maritime psychiatry.