Splits in the self following immigration: An adaptive defense or a pathological reaction?

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 355-372

  Walsh, Sophie D ^a   Shulman, Shmuel ^a  

^a BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Adaptation difficulties; Adaptive defense; Damage to self; Immigration; Mourning processes; Splitting in a sense of self

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADULT; AMBIVALENCE; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CONFUSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEPRESSION; DISORIENTATION; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD; GAME; HATE; HELPLESSNESS; HUMAN; IMMIGRATION; INTERVIEW; ISRAEL; LANGUAGE; LOVE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; SELF CONCEPT; SELF ESTEEM; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; USSR;

EID: 34247587094     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.24.2.355     Document Type: Article

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