| Description |
1 online resource |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Dedication -- Prologue : "the journey -- Introduction -- Psychoanalytic perspectives on migration, identity, culture and its differentiation from -- Psycho-social approaches -- Development of the authentic psychological home and the false psychic home structure -- Migration composite case stories treatment of patients with a precarious sense of identity and self-integration from which composite cases were developed -- Concluding analysis of composite cases -- What leads to successful migration to a new culture and what may end in failure -- Epilogue : "the guest house" -- Glossary -- References. |
| Summary |
Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within is an in-depth study of Eastern European migration to the United States. In presenting the clinical case studies of Eastern European migrants seeking long term psychoanalytic treatment, Grace Conroy pays particular attention to pre-migration history, inner culture, and early psychological development. Conroy details what is happening in the psyche of migrants who are in the process of integrating into new cultures-ultimately exploring the details and nuances of psychological struggles and transformations of the migratory proc. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- Social aspects. |
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects.
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Emigration and immigration -- Psychological aspects. |
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Immigrants -- Europe, Eastern -- Psychological aspects.
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Immigrants. |
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Eastern Europe. |
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Immigrants -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychological aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. |
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United States. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Conroy, Grace P. Migration trauma, culture, and finding the psychological home within. Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2016 9781442231511 (DLC) 2016033831 |
| ISBN |
9781442231528 (Electronic) |
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1442231521 (Electronic) |
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9781442231511 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1442231513 |
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