Immigration and Acculturation: Mourning, Adaptation, and the Next Generation. de Akhtar, Salman - 2011

Lanham, MD: Jason Aronson, 2011. 1st ed.. Hardback octavo, no jacket as issued, pictorial covers, very good condition, top corners covers lightly bumped. 294 pp. This book looks at the traumatic impact of immigration and acculturation and the psychological defenses that are mobilized in the immigrant, including nostalgia and fantasies of return. The author offers first hand accounts of immigrants from a variety of backgrounds and countries of origin, and he gives astute clinical strategies for working with immigrant and ethnically diverse patients and their offspring.