than a native Dutchman from a similar economic background. There are several explanations for these startling figures. A sense of humiliation could be a factor, or the fact that immigrants tend to visit a psychiatrist only when things have come to a crisis. However these explanations are incorrect. The problem lies in the adaptation of a strictly regulated society to a freer more open one; this can lead to disintegration of the personality. The pressure to assimilate is one of the risk factors for schizophrenia. Men suffer more than women because they have more freedom to interact with mainstream Western society. When the process of integration goes too fast, when the son of Moroccan villagers throws himself too quickly into the bewildering maelstrom of Western temptations his cognitive wiring can go badly awry” (Buruma 2007 p121).
Girls or young women have the