1st Edition
Immigration in Psychoanalysis Locating Ourselves
Dedication. Acknowledgements. Contributors. Introduction. Immigration as Psychological Opportunity. The Effects of Immigration on Self Experience. Otherness in Immigration. Native Language, Foreign Tongue Foreign Tongue: Speaking. Name Changes. Trauma and the Experience of Immigration. Mourning and Melancholia in Immigrants. Forever and Immigrant.Index.
Biography
Julia Beltsiou is a psychologist in private practice in New York City, where she works with a diverse group of patients, and supervises clinicians. She is an advanced candidate at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychoanalysis, and lectures nationally and internationally on the topic of the psychological experience of immigration.
Julia Beltsiou has successfully assembled talented psychoanalytic writers and scholar-practitioners with immigrant origins to create a substantive corpus of scholarship on immigration. In their work with immigrant patients we see humans striving to transmit language, thought and meanings about their histories as they mediate residual themes of hitherto unmetabolized personal and family stories. We hear gems of concealed and unconcealed narratives forging their way up. In the schism between remembering and oblivion, psychoanalysts and their immigrant patients negotiate and reconfigure their divided emigrant and immigrant selves to acquire new and felicitous destinies. A must read! - Maurice Apprey, University of Virginia
