Immigrants and Refugees - Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology

Trauma Perennial Mourning Prejudice and Border Psychology. Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them.

List of contents

Introduction , Newcomers , Psychoanalytic theories on adult immigrants and refugees , Mourning and perennial mourning , Newcomers’ linking objects, linking phenomena, and nostalgia , Relocated children and their unconscious fantasies , Living statues , Double mourning: adolescents as immigrants or refugees , A refugee family’s story , Hosts , Prejudice on a psychoanalytic couch , The Other , Border psychology and fear of newcomers

About the author

Vamik D Volkan

Summary

Psychoanalyst Vamik Volkan, who left Cyprus for the US as a young man, brings his own experiences as an immigrant to bear on this study of the psychology of immigrants and refugees, and of those who cross paths with them.

Product details

• Authors: Vamik D. Volkan
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9780367104108
• ISBN: 978-0-367-10410-8
• No. of pages: 142
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Psychoanalytical and Freudian psychology, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology), PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis