Immigrants and Refugees

Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology

Vamik D. Volkan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

142 Seiten

2017
Karnac Books (Verlag)
978-1-78220-472-5 (ISBN)

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Aside from the many political, cultural and economic aspects of the present refugee crisis in Europe, it is also crucial to consider the psychological element. In our fast-changing world, globalisation, advances in communication technology, fast travel, terrorism and now the refugee crisis make psychoanalytic investigation of the Other a major necessity.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.In Part I, case examples illustrate the impact of traumatic experiences, group identity issues, and how traumas embedded in the experience of immigrants and refugees can be passed down from one generation to the next. Part II focuses on the host countries, considering the evolution of prejudice and how fear of newcomers can affect everything from international politics to the way we behave as individuals. Volkan also considers the psychology of borders, from the Berlin Wall to Donald Trump. He argues that it is not enough to sympathise with the material plight of people who have left their homes; we must also strive to understand the mental health issues caused by their uprooting.

Vamik D. Volkan is an Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, an Emeritus Training and Supervising Analyst at the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute, and the Senior Erik Erikson Scholar at the Austen Riggs Center in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He is the president of the International Dialogue Initiative and a former president of the International Society of Political Psychology, the Virginia Psychoanalytic Society, and the American College of Psychoanalysts. He received the Sigmund Freud Award given by the city of Vienna in collaboration with the World Council of Psychotherapy, and in 2015 received the Sigourney Award, honouring achievements for the advancement of psychoanalysis.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	06.01.2017
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	147 x 230 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Psychoanalyse / Tiefenpsychologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Sozialpsychologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-78220-472-5 / 1782204725
ISBN-13	978-1-78220-472-5 / 9781782204725
Zustand	Neuware