Home in Transition

<p class=ql-align-justify>This book presents an integrative perspective on home or <em>Heimat </em>showing that it is much more than the place we were born or where we live. This book brings fresh theoretical and empirical perspectives on what home is and can be from different viewpoints. </p><p class=ql-align-justify>The chapters invite the reader to face challenging questions of what we learn about <em>Heimat</em> when it is taken from us threatened left on purpose or when we set out on the journey to find one. The chapters are written by psychologists throughout but are expanded in perspective by comments from the groups of people featured in the chapters who are thus given their own voice. The book concludes with a suggestion on how to unite all the different perspectives within a general model rooted in cultural psychology.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>All in all the reader of this volume gains an access to the most complex phenomenon of human existence-that of home. Impossible to define in terms of the scientific lore of psychology intuitively understandable in everyday life and basis for deep desires if the feeling of home is lost.</p><p class=ql-align-justify>This book will be a rewarding read for professionals and students from cultural psychology cultural and psychological anthropology sociology and related disciplines asking the question of what home is and how individuals can be supported in finding it.</p><p> </p>