Forced migration, adolescence, and identity formation

American Journal of Psychoanalysis

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 225-237

  Anagnostopoulos, Dimitris C ^a   Vlassopoulos, Maria ^a   Lazaratou, Helen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Forced migration; Identity formation; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; GREECE; HUMAN; IDENTITY; IMMIGRATION; MALE; MIGRATION; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; SOCIOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; AGGRESSION; ALBANIA; ANXIETY, CASTRATION; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); DEFENSE MECHANISMS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FANTASY; GENDER IDENTITY; GREECE; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; OEDIPUS COMPLEX; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; REFUGEES; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRANSFERENCE (PSYCHOLOGY); USSR;

EID: 33749265002     PISSN: 00029548     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11231-006-9019-1     Document Type: Article

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