Colors of Childhood: Separation-Individuation across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Colors of Childhood

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Colors of Childhood: Separation-Individuation across Cultural, Racial, and Ethnic Diversity

Colors of Childhood

$115.00
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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.

Book Details

ISBN
9780765701558
Binding
Hardcover
Authors
Salman Akhtar, Selma Kramer
Publisher
Jason Aronson
Published Date
April 1, 1998
Language
English
Pages
236
Physical Info
0.9 in H x 9.3 in L x 6.5 in W (1.15 lb)

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