Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within: Views From British Object Relations Theory

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Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within is an in-depth study of Eastern European migration to the United States. In presenting the clinical case studies of Eastern European migrants seeking long term psychoanalytic treatment, Grace Conroy pays particular attention to pre-migration history, inner culture, and early psychological development. Conroy details what is happening in the psyche of migrants who are in the process of integrating into new culturesultimately exploring the details and nuances of psychological struggles and transformations of the migratory process.

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An excellent theoretical and clinical exposition about British Object Relations Theory. Both the work on immigration of Eastern Europeans, and the exposition of British Object Relations Theory with its application to the three case studies and their immigration issues are important, worthwhile contributions to the literature. -- Alan Roland, PhD, author of Journeys to Foreign Selves: Asians and Asian Americans in a Global Era

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Grace P. Conroy, PhD, is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City. She has over twenty years of experience working with multicultural populations.