Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Migration and Exile

Although human migrations have been examined by historians, sociologists, demographers, and economists, among others, the effects of relocation have never before been studied in detail from a psychoanalytic viewpoint. In this book, previously published in Spanish and French, Drs. León and Rebeca Grinberg provide the first psychoanalytic study of normal and pathological reactions to migration.

Drawing on rich clinical material, on literature, and on myth, the Grinbergs discuss the relations...