Psychoanalysis in the Community Symposium: Does Immigration Stress or Strengthen Structure? How? Whose? Why? Speakers: Chair: Jeffrey Taxman, M.D. (Mequon, WI)
Presenters: Salman Akhtar, M.D. (Ardmore, PA)
Luba Kessler, M.D. (Roslyn Heights, NY) Dr. Akhtar will discuss effects of immigration on the individual and group psyche of the transplanted person or group. Dr. Taxman will explore effects of immigration
on unconscious transgenerational introjects of the majority culture toward new immigrants. Dr. Kessler will examine the recursive relationship between the individual immigrant experience and an ever-expanding reorganizing ‘"national self.” | 
