Immigration and Acculturation - Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation

This book provides clinical strategies for working with immigrant and ethnically diverse patients and their offspring while drawing observations from the humanities to reveal truths about the psychological impact of immigration. Each aspect of the life of an immigrant is explored, shedding light on the complexities of work, friendship, sex, marriage, aging, religion, and politics.

List of contents

Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Leaving and Arriving
1. The Trauma of Geographical Dislocation
Part II: Being and Becoming
2. Work and Money
3. Sex and Marriage
4. Friendship and Socialization
5. Religion and Politics
Part III: The Dusk and the Dawn
6. Encountering Middle Age and Getting Old
7. The Next Generation
Part IV: The Wounded Healer
8. Challenges of Being an Immigrant Therapist
Appendix: Films about Immigration, Acculturation, and the Next Generation
References
Index
About the Author

About the author

Salman Akhtar

Summary

This book provides clinical strategies for working with immigrant and ethnically diverse patients and their offspring while drawing observations from the humanities to reveal truths about the psychological impact of immigration. Each aspect of the life of an immigrant is explored, shedding light on the complexities of work, friendship, sex, marriage, aging, religion, and politics.

Product details

• Authors: Salman Akhtar
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.03.2014
• EAN: 9781442235090
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-3509-0
• No. of pages: 310
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Applied psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Psychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Developmental / Adolescent, Child & developmental psychology, Child, developmental and lifespan psychology, Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Child, developmental, and lifespan psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis, PSYCHOLOGY / Cultural Psychology, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity