Uprooting and After...

1. Front Matter

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2. Uprooting and After...

   1. Front Matter

      Pages xi-xi

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   2. Uprooting and After...

      • Ch Zwingmann, M. Pfister-Ammende

      Pages 1-3

3. Basic Theoretical Construct

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 5-5

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   2. The Problem of Uprooting

      • Maria Pfister-Ammende

      Pages 7-18

   3. The Nostalgic Phenomenon and its Exploitation

      • Charles Zwingmann

      Pages 19-47

4. Socio-psychological and Psychiatric Investigations

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 49-49

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   2. Psychogenic Disturbances in a Linguistically Strange Environment

      • Rudolf Allers

      Pages 51-59

   3. Aliens’ Paranoid Reaction

      • F. F. Kino

      Pages 60-66

   4. Reactions to Evacuation

      • Anna Freud, Dorothy Burlingham

      Pages 67-72

   5. Displaced Soviet Russians in Switzerland

      • Maria Pfister-Ammende

      Pages 73-102

   6. Human Uprooting

      • D. Müller-Hegemann

      Pages 103-109

   7. Mental Health Aspects of Voluntary Migration

      • Abraham A. Weinberg

      Pages 110-120

   8. African Workers in France and Problems of Adaptation

      • S. Diarra

      Pages 121-133

   9. Difficulties of Adjustment in Immigrant Children in Geneva

      • R. Rodriguez

      Pages 134-141

   10. Nostalgic Behavior

       • Charles Zwingmann

       Pages 142-151

5. Epidemiological Research

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 153-153

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   2. Emigration and Mental Health

      • Ørnulv Ødegaard

      Pages 155-160

   3. Norwegian Emigration, Re-Emigration and Internal Migration

      • Ø. Ødegaard

      Pages 161-177

   4. Concentration Camp Survivors in Norway and Israel

      • L. Eitinger

      Pages 178-192

The unifying theme in this book is the suffering of millions of people, and the attempts of many others to ameliorate such sufferings. A host of world-renowned medical and social science specialists describe their experiences with people who have been beaten, battered, tortured, displaced and uprooted, but have somehow survived those ordeals. From these experiences arose new insights into the problems of uprooting, a new appreciation of the concept of "cultural relativism", and a new terrifying glimpse of the limits of "man's inhumanity to man". The relevance of this book lies in the fact that such ordeals are by no means absent in our world today. In this sense then, the experiences presented and evaluated here serve to bring to focus for us as individuals concerns of all mankind. Through its explicit treatment of diagnoses, prognoses and therapeutic measures the book, however, offers hope, a hope which is much needed in our conflict-torn world of today. W_ F. Angermeier Professor of Psychology Heidelberg, 1973 v Acknowledgments We express our sincere appreciation to all those who made this book a reality: the authors, the publishers, the translators and the printers. For many of us this undertaking was a valuable and rewarding experience despite the numerous complications and delays caused by correspondence; ideologic, political and professional differences between the undersigned; revisions, and technical diffi­ culties inherent in an intercontinental bookproduction.

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