1st Edition
Working with Intercultural Expatriate Families A Psychoanalytic Approach to Interculturality
Foreword to the English edition by Ruth Blay Levisky
Prologue for the Brazilian edition by Marcelo Viñar
Introduction
Chapter 1. Globalisation, culture, borders
Chapter 2. Migrations
Chapter 3. Psychoanalysis of Link Configurations
Chapter 4. The path of psychoanalytic work
Chapter 5. Clinical Cases
Chapter 6. Final considerations
Afterword – Figures of difference: culture and language in pain by Ma Inês Assumpção Fernandes
Glossary of key psychoanalytic terms
Acknowledgments to Evelyn Politzer
Biography
Lisette Weissmann is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist in private practice in Brazil, where she works with individuals, couples, and families in multiple languages. She is also an intercultural training consultant working with expatriates and their families, and a professor at Instituto Sedes Sapientiae, where she teaches and directs the course: Migrants Clinic, including topics such as interculturality, diversity, and inclusion. She is also a postgraduate professor at CEP (Centro de Estudos Psicanalíticos) teaching Couple and Family Psychoanalysis.
“Lisette Weissmann offers a subtle, deeply original psychoanalytic exploration of interculturality and family links in the context of expatriation. With theoretical rigor and refined clinical sensitivity, she illuminates how migration reshapes subjectivity, mourning, belonging, and intersubjective configurations. By bridging social thought and link psychoanalysis, this work opens an essential space for understanding contemporary nomadism and its psychic inscriptions. A valuable and timely contribution to couple and family psychoanalysis in our globalized world.”
Elizabeth Palacios; MD Psychiatrist, IPA training analyst, Chair of the IPA Couple and Family Committee COFAP.
