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

by Salman Akhtar and Selma Kramer

Book Overview

How does culture affect child-rearing practices? How do factors such as poverty, ethnic difference, racial minority status, and having immigrant parents alter the experience of a growing child? Are there culturally distinct sub-groups within the African-American population? How ubiquitous are psychoanalytically derived schedules of personality development? In what form and to what extent are transference and countertransference affected by such racial,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0765701553
• ISBN13: 9780765701558
• Release Date: April 1998
• Publisher: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.5" x 9.3"