[Space, time and identity in migrant (author's transl)].

An understanding of the psychology and psychopathology of the migrant is possible from the phenomenological description of his living world, by utilizing categories of space, time and identity. The clinical preponderance of depressive, paranoïd and psychosomatic symptoms and the symptomatic polymorphism are integrated in this perspective. This includes the subject and the social structure as elements of the total picture. The constant relationship of the subject with the social structure can point to the sociogenic reactive character of some troubles (Acta psychiat. belg., 1977, 77, 623-638).