1st Edition
Immigrants and Refugees Trauma, Perennial Mourning, Prejudice, and Border Psychology
By Vamik D. Volkan
Copyright 2017
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
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
Biography
Vamik D Volkan
