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Uprooting and Development: Dilemmas of Coping with Modernization
George V. Coelho
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Paperback. Editor(s): Coelho, George V. Series: Current Topics in Mental Health. Num Pages: 538 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 29. Weight in Grams: 822.
Uprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities. The special quality of uprooting is that the need to change is faced at a time of separation from accustomed social, cultural, and environ mental support systems. It is this separation from familiar supports that either renders the uprooted vulnerable to the destructive conse ... Read more
Uprooting has to do with one of the fundamental properties of human life-the need to change-and with the personal and societal mecha nisms for dealing with that need. As with the more general problems of change, uprooting can be a time of human disaster and desolation, or a time of adaptation and growth into new capacities. The special quality of uprooting is that the need to change is faced at a time of separation from accustomed social, cultural, and environ mental support systems. It is this separation from familiar supports that either renders the uprooted vulnerable to the destructive conse ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
538
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Current Topics in Mental Health
Condition
New
Number of Pages
538
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468437966
SKU
V9781468437966
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