Immigration in Psychoanalysis: Locating Ourselves presents a unique approach to understanding the varied and multi-layered experience of immigration. It explores how social, cultural, political, and historical contexts shape the psychological experience of immigration, and with it the encounter between foreign-born patients and their psychotherapists. Through personal accounts full of wisdom and nuance, the stories of immigration come to life and become accessible to the reader.
Key Features
- Contributions from a diverse group of experts including Ghislaine Boulanger, Eva Hoffman, and Dori Laub.
- Exploration of the complexity and contradictions of the immigration process.
- Insights into the tension between loss and hope, future and past.
- Resource for clinicians, students, and academics interested in contemporary psychoanalytic perspectives.
Additional Information
The book discusses the idealization and denigration of the other/stranger, and what it takes to tolerate the existential dialectic between separateness and belonging. It serves as a resource for clinical practice and can be read in courses on psychoanalysis, cultural psychology, immigrant studies, race and ethnic relations, self and identity, culture and human development, and immigrants and mental health.
