1st Edition

Migration and Intercultural Psychoanalysis Unconscious Forces and Clinical Issues

Edited By Kristin White, Ina Klingenberg Copyright 2021
160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

160 Pages
by Routledge

How does migration affect us in the deeper layers of our minds, where forces are at work that affect our mental and physical health, our experiences in the world and our behaviour?  This edited volume brings together contributions on the social, historical and personal aspects of migration from a psychoanalytic viewpoint. Clinical perspective is combined with a wider view that makes use of... Read more

Introduction: Kristin White and Ina Klingenberg

  • Migration and loss in a globalised world
  • Migration in the first generation of psychoanalysts

Part I. Migration and defensive organisations

Chapter 1. M. Fakhry Davids: Ethnic purity, otherness and anxiety: the model of internal racism

Chapter 2. Kristin White: Migration, loss and psychic retreat

Chapter 3. Monika Huff-Müller: Once around the world - the denial of traumatisation in the globalised, post-modern world

Part II. Languages, symbols and internal space

Chapter 4. Ilany Kogan: Romania and its unresolved mourning

Chapter 5. Nadja Gogolin: Tolerance for non-understanding: understanding and its limits – the confusion of tongues

Part III. Past generations, past worlds and the struggles of the patient in the present

Chapter 6. Tülay Özbek: The tale of those who went forth: on the inner experience of migration and forced migration

Chapter 7. Cecilia Enriquez de Salamanca: Rites of passage in migration and adolescence: struggling in transformation

Chapter 8. Ina Klingenberg: Psychoanalysis in exile: early migration in the shadow of the Holocaust and the psychoanalytic study group in Prague

Index

Biography

Kristin White is a psychoanalyst working with adults and children in her practice in Berlin, Germany. She is also a training analyst, lecturer and supervisor at the Alfred Adler training institute for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Berlin and a training member of the German Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (DGPT).

Ina Klingenberg is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Berlin, Germany. She took her psychoanalytic training in Berlin and Michigan and has a Masters in Psychoanalytic Cultural Science, Humboldt University. She has worked in cooperation with various organisations that provide support for refugees and migrants and is a trainee member of the German psychoanalytic associations DPG and DGPT.