6^th International Congress of WIAMH

Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina, August 13-15, 1999.

POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE CHARACTERS – PERSONALITIES OF BOSNIANS AS AN INDICATOR OF MENTAL HEALTH QUALITY

Arif SMAJKIĆ

Institute for Health Protection in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 71 000 Sarajevo,
Bosnia and Herzegovina

The author gives a serial of a part of positive and negative characteristics – personal features of Bosnian people – with the emphasis on Bosniaks, Muslims in correlation with social, health and especially somatic and mental disturbances. The paper presents similarities and differences of Bosnians and their personalities – personal features – in association with health (mental and somatic), the tradition of people, and numerous crisis situations, which have been exchanging throughout the time between the wars and natural disasters. The paper is dominated by the span and comparison of positive and negative characters – personalities – with the quality of mental health and especially during various social temptations and crisis. The paper has a character of social, psychiatric and psychological discussion illustrated with original examples of the practice from the past war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Key words:Personalities – Characters – Illnesses of Addiction – Fear – Stress – Mental Health

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