Kristin White is a psychoanalyst working with adults and children in her practice in Berlin, Germany. She is also a training analyst, lecturer and supervisor at the Alfred Adler training institute for psychoanalysis and psychotherapy in Berlin and a training member of the German Society for Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (DGPT).

Ina Klingenberg is a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in Berlin, Germany. She took her psychoanalytic training in Berlin and Michigan and has a Masters in Psychoanalytic Cultural Science, Humboldt University. She has worked in cooperation with various organisations that provide support for refugees and migrants and is a trainee member of the German psychoanalytic associations DPG and DGPT.

Introduction: Kristin White and Ina Klingenberg

• Migration and loss in a globalised world
• Migration in the first generation of psychoanalysts

Part I. Migration and defensive organisations

Chapter 1. M. Fakhry Davids: Ethnic purity, otherness and anxiety: the model of internal racism

Chapter 2. Kristin White: Migration, loss and psychic retreat

Chapter 3. Monika Huff-Müller: Once around the world - the denial of traumatisation in the globalised, post-modern world

Part II. Languages, symbols and internal space

Chapter 4. Ilany Kogan: Romania and its unresolved mourning

Chapter 5. Nadja Gogolin: Tolerance for non-understanding: understanding and its limits - the confusion of tongues

Part III. Past generations, past worlds and the struggles of the patient in the present

Chapter 6. Tülay Özbek: The tale of those who went forth: on the innerexperience of migration and forced migration

Chapter 7. Cecilia Enriquez de Salamanca: Rites of passage in migration and adolescence: struggling in transformation

Chapter 8. Ina Klingenberg: Psychoanalysis in exile: early migration in the shadow of the Holocaust and the psychoanalytic study group in Prague

Index