Life Overtakes Me

Life Overtakes Me

65% | Jan 26, 2019 | 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.

Featured Cast

Kristine Samuelson
Director
John Haptas
Director

Cast

Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Henry Ascher
Himself - Pediatrician and Professor, University of Gothenburg (as Henry Ascher MD)
Herself - Immigration Attorney
Nadja Hatem
Herself - Immigration Attorney
Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Mikael Billing
Himself - Psychologist and Psychotherapist, BUP Asylum Psychiatric Unit
Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Karl Sallin
Himself - Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics, Uppsala University (as Karl Sallin MD)
Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)
Elizabeth Hultcrantz
Herself - Professor Emerita, Linköping University (as Elizabeth Hultcrantz MD PhD)

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