Adult Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy (APP)
2019-20, 1st Block — Mondays, 6:30-7:45pm
Jacqui Metzger, MSW

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My People Are Not Your People

Presenter: Flaviane Ferreira, MD LMHC

This class will explore difference in culture, religion, language , national origin, and experiences of immigration or dislocation.

Akhtar, S. (2016) Salman Ahtar on “A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and the Psychoanalytic Process”.  PEP/UCL Top Authors Project, 1(1):17

Please watch this 20 minute video  in preparation for this class.

Optional Reading

Akhtar, S. (1995). A Third Individuation: Immigration, Identity, and The Psychoanalytic Process. J. Amer. Psychoanal. Assn., 43:1051-1084

Akhtar, S. (1999). The Immigrant, the Exile, and the Experience of Nostalgia. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies,1:123-130

Salman Akhtar on The Trauma of Dislocation, vimeo.com.

Choksi, K. (2003). Children of Immigration. By Carola Suarez-Orozco and Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco. Harvard University Press, 2001. J. Appl. Psychoanal. Stud., 5(3):371-374.

Saroop, S. (2004). Children of Immigration, by Carola Suarez-Orozco and Marcello Suarez-Orozco, Harvard University Press, 2002, 206 pp.. Am. J. Psychoanal., 64(2):219-222.