Salman Akhtar

Gebundenes Buch

Immigration and Acculturation

Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation

Beschreibung

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.

Autor

Salman Akhtar is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. His books include Immigration and Identity, Freud and the Far East, and The Crescent and the Couch.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Jason Aronson, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 659g
• ISBN-13: 9780765708243
• ISBN-10: 0765708248
• Artikelnr.: 31993953