De verdubbeling van de wereld Weerstand in de therapie bij tweede generatie migratieregelateerde identiteitsproblematiek

Starting in early childhood, second-generation non-Western immigrants live in a reality of irreconcilable cultures and divided generations and families. The emphasis in this article is on how patients with migration-related identity problems are constantly tossed back and forth internally as well as externally between incongruous worlds, which also occurs in the course of therapy. A fixated pattern like this of a double world is accompanied by numerous secrets, lying and pretending. In the case described here, migration-related identity problems manifest themselves in such a way that the therapeutic setting itself acquires a form that is quite out of the ordinary. With transatlantic psychotherapy twice a week at fixed times on the telephone, continuity and connection are very concretely established. The inner integration increases and therapy comes increasingly to resemble regular psychoanalytical therapy.