Addresses psychological effects of immigration and gives specific guidelines for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis with immigrant patients. Discusses social affiliation, hope and nostalgia, superego change, and linguistic transformation, and illustrates the implications of these ideas with clinical vignettes. Poetry and personal letters from immigrants give further insight. Akhtar is professor of psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College, lecturer on psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, and training and supervising analyst at the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

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