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How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors
such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and
having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child?
Are there culturally distinct sub-groups within the
African-American population? How ubiquitous are psychoanalytically
derived schedules of personality development? In what form and to
what extent are transference and countertransference affected by
such racial, ethnic, and economic issues? In this volume, eight
distinguished psychoanalysts (including some belonging to ethnic
and racial minorities) attempt to answer these questions. They
provide illuminating details of child-rearing practices in
African-American, Indian, and Japanese families. They interweave
mythological legacies, historical background, ethnographic data,
and clinical observations into a rich tapestry of knowledge,
empathy, and understanding. They try to tease out the variables of
socioeconomic class from the issue of race and the ambiguities
consequent upon raising children in a new and unfamiliar land from
the ordinary and inevitable conflicts between generations.
Fidelity: from cannibalism to imperialism & beyond/intimacy
& individuation/egocentricity.
Thicker Than Blood addresses in depth the impact of adoption on
biological parents, adoptive parents, adopted children, and
siblings.
*Sibling relationships and sibling rivalry are as old as recorded
history. This book arises from work with children exploring that
ambivalance between siblings, which casts its shadow throughout
people's lifetimes and affects their choices of mates,
relationships with their children and aversions to other persons.
What is hatred? How does it differ from rage? What are its origins?
Is hatred ever rational? Why are some people unable to let go of it
while others are completely incapable of feeling it? Eight
distinguished psychoanalysts provide the answers to these and other
related questions in this tightly organized volume. With the help
of clinical vignettes and literary portrayals, these experienced
therapists address the emergence of hatred in the clinical
situation. They highlight the various purposes served by the
patient's hatred including drive discharge, projective
identification, defense against dependence, anchoring of identity,
and self holding. They also present a rich understanding of the
hatred felt by the therapist vis-...-vis hateful and chronically
self-destructive individuals. Finally, they discuss the technical
implications of these concepts and delineate useful interventions
to contain, manage, and interpret the patient's intense hatred. The
matters discussed in this book are diverse and include infant
observation, gender differences, child abuse, severe character
pathology, multiple personality, countertransference difficulties,
literary characters, racial prejudice, ethnic hatred, and war. The
focus of the book, however, remains clinical. Its ultimate aim is
to enhance the clinician's ability to deal with the hatred felt by
the patient, and, at times, by the therapist.
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