Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis

<p>This book presents a comprehensive overview of psychoanalytic work with immigrant mothers fathers and their children combining clinical examples and contemporary research to explore ways in which psychoanalysts can work and shape appropriate therapeutic settings.</p><p>Written by an international range of contributors from Europe the US and the Middle East the chapters examine how psychoanalysts especially when they too are immigrants can best support those in a transcultural situation against the backdrop of increasing migration from conflict persecution war or poverty. They share a clinical and societal commitment. While showing how the existing literature on immigration focuses rightly on traumatic elements the chapters in this text also demonstrate how creativity must be considered while shaping a psychoanalytic perspective. The text brings together case material and research to illuminate how the therapeutic and theoretical processes of psychoanalysis at times combining anthropology and sociology can lead to the construction of new therapeutic settings mostly for non-Western families in contexts of higher psychopathological risks: neo-natal period international adoption and social isolation.</p><p>Written in a practical accessible style <i>Parenthood and Immigration in Psychoanalysis</i> is essential reading for practicing psychoanalysts paediatricians psychotherapists and counsellors as well as researchers and clinicians in a range of fields including perinatal sociology cultural studies and social work.</p>