Vamik D. Volkan

Immigrants and Refugees

Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 142
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 154mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 216g
• ISBN-13: 9781782204725
• ISBN-10: 1782204725
• Artikelnr.: 45063746

Autorenporträt

Vamik D Volkan

Inhaltsangabe

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