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This book is composed around a metaphor. ‘Lost childhood’ can be considered as an experience we all have; losing continuity between childhood and what follows later or experiencing disruption through specific life events like orphanage or migration. This work was conceived by three Hungarian-born Jewish female psychoanalysts, Judit Szekacs-Weisz (in London), Kathleen Kelley-Lainé (from Toronto, now in Paris) and Judit Mészáros (in Budapest, after many years in Washington, DC). It contains contributions made at diverse ‘lost childhood'conferences in London, Paris and Budapest during recent years. These encounters led to the creation in London of a place offering analytical psychotherapy in over 20 languages. This space allows therapists to deal with experiences of people living in changing contexts and languages, diverse cultures, and to find creative solutions for difficulties emerging from these situations.
To work in this field implies being confronted not only with the dimension of loss per se, but also with those of language and history. It requires not only a multilingual, but also a multidimensional understanding of the underlying forces shaped by historical changes, political manipulations, economical currents and sociocultural transformations. Accordingly, this volume brings together a rich array of essays written by a great diversity of people working with and/or being themselves asylumseeking exiles and/or other migrants.