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Section 4. Clinical Applications

A Transactional Analysis Approach to Adjustment Problems of Adolescents from Immigrant Families

Pages 220-223
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article discusses problems of social adjustment experienced by children of immigrant families in Italy. Such difficulties, which take the form of anxiety and depression at the intrapsychic level and antisocial behavior at the social level, are related to conflicting injunctions these young people receive. The first injunction, which originates in the family, demands that they not adjust to the host society; the second, which is of societal origin, prohibits them from being themselves, especially in terms of their culture of origin. Possible rehabilitation actions are suggested, and theoretical remarks related to script theory are offered.

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Marco Mazzetti

Marco Mazzetti is a psychiatrist and a Provisional Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst (clinical). He is in private practice in Rome as a psychiatrist and clinical transactional analyst. He is the author of several publications about cross-cultural psychiatry and of the book Strappare le radici—Psicologia e psicopatologia di donne e di uomini che migrano (Ripping Out the Roots: The Psychology and Psychopathology of Women and Men Who Immigrate).