Immigration and Acculturation Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation By: Salman Akhtar Publisher: Jason Aronson, Inc. Print ISBN: 9781442235090, 1442235098 eText ISBN: 9780765708267, 0765708264 Pages: 310 Format: PDF Available from $ 30.00 USD SKU 9780765708267R120 Moving from one country to another causes a radical alteration of one's cultural and geophysical surround. Separation from friends and family, loss of valued possessions, and encountering new ways of living result in mental pain and disorienting anxieties. In Immigration and Acculturation, Salman Akhtar examines the traumatic impact of immigration and the acculturation process and the psychological defenses that are mobilized in the immigrant, including nostalgia and fantasies of return. Akhtar explores each aspect of an immigrant's life, shedding light on the complexities of work, friendship, sex, marriage, aging, religion, and politics, as well as showing how unresolved conflicts are passed on to the next generation. Akhtar provides first-hand accounts from immigrants from a variety of backgrounds and countries of origin, and he provides clinical strategies for working with immigrant and ethnically diverse patients and their offspring. Deftly synthesizing observations from psychoanalysis, anthropology, literature, history, and related disciplines in the humanities, Salman Akhtar elegantly elucidates postmigration identity change. Additional ISBNs 9780765708243, 0765708248 Download eBook Free: https://ouo.io/LPxpQA
