Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees: Bonds and Fractures Across Identities and Cultures

Psychoanalytic Work with Migrants and Refugees presents a rich panorama of the clinical issues facing those who experience migration.

Virginia De Micco is a psychiatrist and anthropologist based in Italy. She is a full member of the Italian Psychoanalytical Society (SPI) and is a member of the IPA Research Group for Geographies of Psychoanalysis, the IPA Committee on Humanitarian Psychoanalysis, and the EPF Group on ＂Psychoanalysis Migration and Cultural Identities＂. She is chair of the PER group (Psicoanalisti Europei per i Rifugiati) of the Italian Society. She works in the psychocultural field, particularly with migrants and refugees, with special attention to cultural differences, the psychodynamics of racism and prejudice, the anthropological transformations and their consequences on subjectivation processes, mother-child relations and the transgenerational aspects of traumas in migratory experience.