Identity, Attachment and Resilience

Exploring Three Generations of a Polish Family
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-138-70172-4
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 268 Seiten, Format (B × H): 231 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 414 g

Identity, Attachment and Resilience provides a timely foray into the new field of psychology and genealogy, exploring the relationship between family history and identity. The field encompasses family narratives and researches family history to increase our understanding of cultural and personal identity, as well as our sense of self. It draws on emotional geography and history to provide rich yet personalised contexts for family experience.

In this book, Antonia Bifulco researches three generations of her own Czechowski family, beginning in Poland in the late nineteenth century and moving on to post-WWII England. She focuses on key family members and places to describe individual experience against the socio-political backdrop of both World Wars. Utilising letters, journals and handwritten biographies of family members, the book undertakes an analysis of impacts on identity (sense of self ), attachment (family ties) and resilience (coping under adversity), drawing out timely wider themes of immigration and European identity.

Representing a novel approach for psychologists, linking family narrative to social context and intergenerational impacts, Identity, Attachment and Resilience describes Eastern European upheaval over the twentieth century to explain why Polish communities have settled in England. With particular relevance for Polish families seeking to understand their cultural heritage and identity, this unique account will be of great interest to any reader interested in family narratives, immigration and identity. It will appeal to students and researchers of psychology, history and social sciences.

Zielgruppe

General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bifulco, Antonia (University of Middlesex, UK)

Bifulco, Antonia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Spelling and Pronunciation of Polish names

Chapter 1 Trust: Introducing family narratives

SECTION I Poland: The first generation

Chapter 2 Autonomy: Living under partition (1886-1913)

Chapter 3 Initiative: Fighting on the Eastern front (1914-20)

Chapter 4 Industriousness: Life in independent Warsaw (1921-39)

SECTION II Poland and England: The second generation

Chapter 5 Confusion: Nazi Occupation of Warsaw (1939-43)

Chapter 6 Identity: Resistance in France (1939-43)

Chapter 7 Isolation: England fights, Warsaw rises (1943-45)

SECTION III England: The third generation

Chapter 8 Intimacy: Marriage and migration (1945-50)

Chapter 9 Generativity: Family reunion and loss (1951-71)

Chapter 10 Integrity: Reminiscence and reflection (1972-2016)

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antonia Bifulco is professor and co-director at the Centre for Abuse and Trauma Studies at Middlesex University, London. She is a psychologist with expertise in lifespan development, and utilises an attachment model to examine relationships. She has had extensive research funding and publishes on issues concerning childhood and adult adversity, stress/trauma and clinical depression.