Immigrant parents and their emigrant adolescents: The tension of inner and outer worlds

American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 143-153

  Mann, Mali A ^a,b,c  

^a Faculty at the San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis and Faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California   (United States)

^b STANFORD UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnicity; Immigration; Mourning; Oedipus complex; Self identity

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AFRICA; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CHILD HEALTH CARE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DEPRESSION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; GROUP PSYCHOLOGY; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; MALE; NIGERIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

EID: 3342881855     PISSN: 00029548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:TAJP.0000027269.37516.16     Document Type: Article

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