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Table des matières
Foreword -- Preface -- The confluence of cultures: an Iranian–American story -- Lost luggage: analytic training as search for objects lost in migration -- A tale of two cities -- Navigating our cultural identifications: individual, social, and political struggle in the therapy room -- De dónde eres? Finding a “from” in psychoanalysis -- A wound of no return: in search of self, loss, and transformation -- A demand for training -- Stolen freedom -- Crossing the border within: migration, transience, and analytic identity -- The unmatched twin: enactments of otherness and the autobiography of an immigrant clinician -- Conclusion: change is us
A propos de l'auteur
Monisha Nayar-Akhtar obtained her Masters and PhD in clinical psychology from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan. Later, she trained at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute in adult and child/adolescent analysis. Since 2007 she has been practicing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania as an adult and child/adolescent psychoanalyst. She is also on the faculty of the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. Dr Nayar-Akhtar has a keen interest in applying psychoanalytic principles to community issues and promoting psychoanalytic thinking in India, her country of origin. Dr Akhtar has presented and published widely in the area of trauma, cultural issues, attachment and impact of the Internet on adolescent development. She has also edited a book titled 'Play and Playfulness: Developmental, Cultural and Clinical Aspects,' and is the Guest Editor for an issue of the 'Psychoanalytic Inquiry' titled 'Working with children in alternative Care settings.' Dr Nayar-Akhtar is a Training and Supervising analyst and lives in Wynnewood, Pennsylvania with her dog, Majnun.
Résumé
This is a book about the growth and development of a multicultural therapist/analyst, looking at how a history of immigration and exposure to analytic training began to influence clinicians as they evolved as analytic therapists and analysts.
