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Migration trauma, culture, and finding the psychological home within : views from British object relations theory /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Conroy, Grace P. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
Subjects:
Emigration and immigration > Social aspects.
Emigration and immigration > Psychological aspects.
Immigrants > Europe, Eastern > Psychological aspects.
Immigrants > United States > Psychological aspects.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Dedication
  • Prologue : "the journey
  • Introduction
  • Psychoanalytic perspectives on migration, identity, culture and its differentiation from
  • Psycho-social approaches
  • Development of the authentic psychological home and the false psychic home structure
  • Migration composite case stories treatment of patients with a precarious sense of identity and self-integration from which composite cases were developed
  • Concluding analysis of composite cases
  • What leads to successful migration to a new culture and what may end in failure
  • Epilogue : "the guest house"
  • Glossary
  • References.