TY  - BOOK
AU  - Akhtar,Salman
TI  - Immigration and identity: turmoil, treatment, and transformation 
SN  - 0765702320
AV  - JV6013. A39 1999
U1  - 305.90691 
PY  - 1999///]
CY  - Northvale, N.J.
PB  - Jason Aronson
KW  - Emigration and immigration
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Immigrants
KW  - Psychology
N1  - 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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