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The Colors of Childhood: Separation-Individuation Across Cultural, Racial and Ethnic Diversity

Author(s) : Salman Akhtar, Author(s) : Selma Kramer

Book Details

Publisher : Jason Aronson
Published : 1998
Cover : Hardback
Pages : 236
Category :
Child and Adolescent Studies
Catalogue No : 15963
ISBN 13 : 9780765701558
ISBN 10 : 0765701553

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Starting from a separation-individuation perspective, this text discusses cultural issues in child rearing and clinical practice. Included are chapters on African-American, Japanese, and South American cultures, among others.

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Salman Akhtar, MD, was born in India and completed his medical and psychiatric education there. Upon arriving in the USA in 1973, he repeated his psychiatric training at the University of Virginia School of Medicine, and then obtained psychoanalytic training from the Philadelphia Psychoanalytic Institute. Currently, he is Professor of Psychiatry at Jefferson Medical College and a training and supervising analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has authored, edited or co-edited more than 300 publications including books on psychiatry and psychoanalysis and several collections of poetry. He is also a Scholar-in-Residence at the Inter-Act Theatre Company in Philadelphia. Salman Akhtar received the Sigourney Award in 2012.

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