Immigration and identity : turmoil, treatment, and transformation / Salman Akhtar.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I. Immigration -- 1. Psychosocial Variables Associated with Immigration -- Factors Affecting the Outcome -- Circumstances of and Reasons for Migration -- Access to Refueling -- Age at Migration -- Pre-immigration Character -- Nature of the Country Left -- Magnitude of Cultural Differences -- Reception by the Host Population -- Experiences of Efficacy in the New Country -- Birth of Children -- Some Unaddressed Realms -- The Role of Bodily Characteristics -- The Impact of Gender -- Marriage and Immigration -- Legal Status -- Homosexuality and Immigration -- Dreams -- The Changed Man-Animal Relationship -- Summary -- Part II. Identity -- 2. Development, Phenomenology, and Clinical Relevance of Identity -- Historical Evolution of the Concept -- Developmental Origins of Identity -- The Seeds of Identity before Birth -- Early Childhood -- Later Childhood -- Adolescence -- The Father's Role -- Elaborations of Identity during Adulthood -- Phenomenological Aspects -- Realistic Body Image -- Subjective Self-Sameness -- Consistent Attitudes and Behaviors -- Temporal Continuity -- Authenticity -- Gender -- Ethnicity and Conscience -- Clinical Relevance -- Summary -- 3. Four Tracks in Identity Transformation Following Immigration -- From Love or Hate to Ambivalence -- From Near or Far to Optimal Distance -- From Yesterday or Tomorrow to Today -- From Yours or Mine to Ours -- Some Caveats -- Summary -- Part III. Cross-Cultural Treatment -- 4. Psychoanalysis and Psychodynamic Psychotherapy -- Technical Guidelines -- Maintaining Cultural Neutrality and Avoiding Countertransference Pitfalls -- Judiciously Accommodating the Therapeutic Framework to Cultural Differences -- Adopting a Developmental Stance and Conducting Developmental Work -- Unmasking and Interpreting the Cultural Rationalizations of Intrapsychic Conflicts and Transference Reactions -- Validating Feelings of Dislocation and Facilitating Mourning -- Interpreting Defensive Functions of Nostalgia as well as Defenses against the Emergence of Nostalgia -- Accepting Seemingly Inoptimal Individuation and Involvement of Relatives in Treatment -- Facing the Challenge Posed by the Patient's Polyglottism and Polylingualism -- Summary -- 5. The Immigrant Community and the Immigrant Therapist -- Child and Family Interventions -- Psychoanalytically Informed Advice -- Community Outreach -- The Immigrant Therapist -- Summary -- Glossary -- References -- Credits -- Index -- About the Author.

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