The African American experience : psychoanalytic perspectives / / Salman Akhtar
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| Autore: |
Akhtar Salman <1946 July 31->
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| Titolo: |
The African American experience : psychoanalytic perspectives / / Salman Akhtar
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| Pubblicazione: | Lanham, : Jason Aronson, c2012 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (480 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 616.890089/96073 |
| Soggetto topico: | African Americans - Mental health |
| African Americans - Psychology - History | |
| Cultural psychiatry - United States | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1: Core Stories; Chapter One: The Five Hundred Year History of African Americans; Chapter Two: Psychoanalysis and African Americans: Past, Present, and Future; 2: Character Studies; Chapter Three: Command and Legacy: Martin Luther King, Jr.; Chapter Four: Ideology and Identity: Malcolm X; Chapter Five: Power and Meaning: Muhammad Ali; Chapter Six: Resilience and Influence: Oprah Winfrey; Chapter Seven: Synthesis and Leadership: Barack Obama; 3: Cultural Spectrum; Chapter Eight: Anti-Black Racism and the Conception of Whiteness |
| Chapter Nine: African American Families: Still a Band of Slaves?Chapter Ten: Personality Development in Different African American Cultures; Chapter Eleven: Hollywood and African Americans; 4: Clinical Strands; Chapter Twelve: An African American's Becoming a Psychoanalyst: Some Personal Reflections; Chapter Thirteen: The African-American Patient in Psychodynamic Treatment; Chapter Fourteen: Racial Transference Reactions in Psychoanalytic Treatment: An Update; Chapter Fifteen: White Analysts Seeing Black Patients; Chapter Sixteen: Racial Enactments in Dynamic Treatment; References; Index | |
| About the Editor and Contributors | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | The African American Experience: Psychoanalytic Perspectives edited by Salman Akhtar brings together the contributions of distinguished mental health professionals and scholars of humanities to offer a multifaceted perspective on the transgenerational trauma of slavery, the hardship of single parent families, the ruthlessness of anti-black racism, and the crushing burden of poverty and social disenfranchisement on the African American individual. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The African American experience |
| ISBN: | 1-280-88040-6 |
| 9786613721716 | |
| 0-7657-0837-X | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910823601503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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