Enduring Migration through the Life Cycle

ISBN-13: 9781855757820 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 278 str.

Arturo Varchevker

Opis

Migration in the last decades resulted in mayor conflicts in all aspects of society. This book addresses the psychological response to migration and explores the emotional response to both, the change of habitat and changes in life cycle. Quite often the migrant idealizes the new habitat and the country of origin is devalued and sometimes there is a swing in the opposite direction.

Although other psychoanalytical concepts describe the emotional reactions and enduring pathological problems, 'Migration' provide a wider and deeper understanding towards the capacity and possibilities of adaptation to a new situation.

The chapters are structured according to the Life Cycle and in addition we have included chapters where the authors address socio-cultural issues.Freud and post Freudian theories are further developed of our understanding of the function of the mind. The reader will become aware of the importance of internal migration.

The exploration of migration phenomenon enables a deeper and wider view of the emotional vicissitudes activated by significant moves or geographical changes or developmental changes. Migration highlights the sense of identity, psychic development and creativity.

Psychoanalysis contributes to a deeper exploration of the mental functioning of migrants and internal migration and this has improved the therapeutic possibilities of helping individuals, couples families.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- Childhood -- Internal and external migration in infancy and childhood: the re-presentation of absence in a mother—baby couple—a case study in psychoanalytic parent—infant psychotherapy -- Learning to walk down the corridor: body image, catastrophic anxieties, and supportive internal figures -- Adolescence -- Finding out where and who one is: the special complexity of migration for adolescents -- Adulthood -- Migration, loss, and connectedness: two analytic cases -- "Neither rhyme nor reason": migrating to the rigidity of narcissism as a defence against chaos and pain -- Old Age -- Another country? migration, displacement, and internal dislocation in old age -- Migration in Couples and Families -- Migrating between self and others: mentalisation-based therapy with families -- External and internal migration in couples -- Culture and Society -- "Fed with tears, poisoned with milk": the way out from under the shadows of the Holocaust -- "Tears are better than blood; words are better than tears": can we address current, ongoing conflict? -- Migration and creativity -- Art and Psychoanalytic Perspectives -- Roots, identity, and loss in the work of two émigré artists

O autorze

McGinley, Eileen