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Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within by Grace Przybylska Conroy - book presentation

Monday, November 21, 2016, at 6:00pm

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6:00 pm - Gift Store open for book purchases

6:30 pm - Presentation with signing

Reception to follow

Admission is $5 for non-members, $0 for members.

Seating is limited, first come, first served.

Location: the Kosciuszko Foundation NY

AGENDA

1. The Migration Journey as a Global Phenomena

2. The Migration Complex and Psychoanalysis

3. A Microcosmic Psychoanalytic Exploration of the Migration Process

4. The Book's Psychoanalytic Framework and the Clinical Foundation

5. The Migrants Journeys

6. Book's Discoveries and Conclusions

7. The Assessment of Impact of Migration Complex on a Migrant's Sense of Self

8. Finding the Psychological Home Within

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

Migration Trauma, Culture, and Finding the Psychological Home Within explores the profound psychological effect of migration through 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 P. Conroy offers a thorough investigation into the seldom addressed relationships between migration, internal culture, and identity. Drawing from British Object Relations Theory, Conroy examines pre-migration history, inner culture, and in particular early psychological development to discover both the factors that lead to successful psychological migration as well as those factors that lead to failure. A valuable resource for practitioners who work with immigrants, this thoughtful and engaging volume provides insights into the psyche of migrants in the process of integrating into new cultures, and ultimately explores the details and nuances of inner psychological struggles and transformations of the migratory process.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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.

www.graceconroy.com

The Guest House

This being human is a guest house,

Every morning a new arrival

A joy, a depression, a meanness, some momentary awareness comes

as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!

Even if they are a crowd of sorrows, who violently sweep your house

empty of its furniture, still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice, meet them

at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes because each

has been sent as a guide from beyond.

Jelaluddin Rumi

Translation by Coleman Banks

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