1st Edition
Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures
1. The Unconscious of the Others 2. The multiple faces of migratory traumas 3. Cultural ruptures, identity ruptures. Growing up between two worlds 4. Migration : surviving the inhumane 5. Transplanting/Transmitting. Bonds and Identifications in migrations 6. The skin I live in, the name I bare. Cultural fractures and transgenerational bonds in migrant children 7. Where is my place ? Families in transition 8. Bodies in migration : memories, traumas, belongings 9. The double body of the adolescent migrants 10. I have war on my mind. About foreign adolescences 11. Ideals, cultural differences and transgenerational fractures : about foreign sexuality 12. What women don’t say…Mute traumatic traces and bodily resistance in women’s migration 13. The foreign and the other : the uncanny intimacy (l’inquiétante intimité) 14. Psychoanalytical listening to children fleeing war. Fragile borders on the thresholds of horror 15. Illusions, and disillusions, in psychoanalytical work with migrants and refugees 16. In the margin
Biography
Virginia De Micco is a psychiatrist and anthropologist based in Italy. She is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and is a member of the IPA Research Group for Geographies of Psychoanalysis, the IPA Committee on Humanitarian Psychoanalysis, and the EPF Group on 'Psychoanalysis Migration and Cultural Identities'. She is the chair of the PER group (Psicoanalisti Europei per i Rifugiati) of the Italian Society. She works in the psychocultural field, particularly with migrants and refugees, with special attention to cultural differences, the psychodynamics of racism and prejudice, anthropological transformations and their consequences on subjectivation processes, mother-child relations, and the transgenerational aspects of traumas in migratory experience.
