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Edith Sullwold Memorial Lecture: Zoom Only: “Afraid of Things That Are in Flight: Birds, and Sometimes Families”
October 7, 2023 @ 10:00 am - 1:00 pm
Prepaid Cost: $50.00 – $70.00Event Navigation
Presented by Rob Tyminski, DMH
October 7, 2023, 10am-1pm to be held on Zoom.
“Afraid of Things That Are in Flight: Birds, and Sometimes Families”
How does immigration affect the mental health of children whose parents have moved to another country? A desire to offer their children better lives is often a main motivating factor for many immigrant parents. Children can come to symbolize parents’ wishes for this promising future, a bit like stars in the night sky shining out of the darkness. Yet sometimes, parents bring with them remnants of their past that linger within a family as secrets and untold stories, such as of traumatic events before or during their migration. Intergenerational transmission of traumatic incidents can be a characteristic of immigrant children’s experiences when parents have fled their home countries because of persecution and discrimination. A case example of a nine-year-old girl will highlight some of the complex dynamics of unconscious repetitions that can overwhelm a developing psyche with fears and fragmentation. Attendees will be encouraged to engage in discussion about their perspectives on the psychological effects of immigration.
Learning objectives:
- Describe the main psychological factors of intergenerational trauma;
- Explain with two examples how narrative gaps in immigrants stories might happen;
- Cite two ways for how a myth or story like the Aeneid relates to immigration.
ROBERT TYMINSKI (USA) is an adult and child analyst member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco and a past president; he teaches in the Institute’s analytic training program. He is the author of Male Alienation at the Crossroads of Identity, Culture and Cyberspace (Routledge, 2018); The Psychology of Theft and Loss: Stolen and Fleeced (Routledge, 2014); and a novel Crooked Lines (2016). He is a 2016 winner of the Michael Fordham Prize from the Journal of Analytical Psychology. His book The Psychological Effects of Immigrating: A Depth Psychology Perspective on Relocating to a New Place came out in September 2022.
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