ABSTRACT
While personally reflecting on his experiences of immigration, the author focuses on the psychological experiences of trauma caused by involuntary immigration or migration, a phenomenon that is on the rise across the globe especially due to political instability and climate change. He proposes that forced immigration or migration is an experience of exile and discusses the arduous psychological and spiritual experiences that can ultimately be experienced as a liminal condition carrying the potential for further psychospiritual development.
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D. Steven Nouriani
D. STEVEN NOURIANI, PhD, MFT, is a multicultural Jungian analyst and a member of the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco, where he regularly teaches at educational events and in the analytical training program. With a special interest in mysticism and bridging East and West, he has published and presented on various topics in analytical psychology at conferences in the United States and abroad for two decades. Dr. Nouriani is in private practice in San Francisco and San Jose, California, where he provides analysis and depth psychotherapy to children, adults, couples, and groups, in English and Persian. Correspondence: https://www.FindPsychotherapy.com.