Publication Announcement by Susan Klebanoff (USA)

(2022). Psychoanalytic Perspectives. Online

The author writes about growing up with a complex and enigmatic immigrant father, who lived many years as a stigmatized other, as a Russian Jew in northern China. She focuses on the impact this personal family history has on her treatment with a female Romani patient from Eastern Europe, a more recent immigrant, who also lived many years as a stigmatized other. The author differentiates between the experiences of one-time immigrants and migrants, the latter being haunted by generations of dislocation, which causes them to question their fundamental sense of safety and belonging. The author discusses ways the personal and professional threads become interwoven, impacting the bi-directional conscious and unconscious flow of the treatment. Following a clinical impasse, patient and analyst together build toward a mutually transformative moment.

https://doi.org/10.1080/1551806X.2022.2133305

Susan Klebanoff, Ph.D.
New York, NY, USA
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