Book Review: La experiencia de migrar: reflexiones psicoanalíticas [The Experience of Immigrating: Psychoanalytic Reflections]. By Liliana Ferrero. Buenos Aires, Argentina:  Bieble, 2019,  137 pp., $58.00 paperback.

Although brief, Ferrero's book La Experiencia de Migrar: Reflexiones Psicoanalíticas [The Experience of Immigrating: Psychoanalytic Reflections] examines the possible psychic consequences of the immigration experience. The book features a prologue by Silvia Nussbaum and Rodolfo Moguillansky, two distinguished Argentinian psychoanalysts, who highlight how Ferrero, through her personal reading of the literature, emphasizes the significance of the mourning processes triggered and intensified by migratory movements of people. These authors remark on the way she navigates the intricate terrain of this complex issue without resorting to simplistic solutions.

Engaging in a dynamic dialectical interplay between her personal experience and psychoanalytical models, Ferrero addresses fundamental clinical questions, such as whether a pathology of the immigration experience exists and psychoanalysis can offer a nuanced understanding of immigrant experiences. Ferrero examines the multiple ways in which the experience of immigrating can be foreseen as a fortuitous opportunity or an inherently tragic process. The book is divided into two parts, each comprising several sections that develop its central themes.

The first part of the book studies the intercultural and psychopathological dimensions of the immigrant experience. Ferrero emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary research on the subject and highlights how recent studies in anthropology, psychiatry, and psychology have revealed a significant correlation between immigrant-related sociocultural stressors, such

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