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Alan Roland, Ph.D., a psychoanalyst, author, artist and playwright/librettist. He has made seminal contributions in the area of cross-cultural psychology with Asians and Asian Americans, having written three books on the subject.

Dr. Roland is an accomplished artist, regularly exhibiting watercolors, intaglio prints and conte crayon drawings in venues around the country. Following this theme, he also wrote a book on drama, creativity and the artist.

In addition to visual art, he has written a music theater work with dance, a historical play entitled Flight of the Ibis, which has been performed live in front of an audience. He has also written an opera-oratorio libretto, War of the Sons of Light, in collaboration with the composer, Ami Maayani.

Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis explores the creative dialogue that the major psychoanalysts since Freud have had with the modern Northern European/North American culture of individualism and tries to resolve major problems that occur when psychoanalysis, with its cultural legacy of individualism, is applied to those from various Asian cultures. Roland examines the theoretical issues involved in developing a multicultural psychoanalysis, and then looks at the interface between Asian-Americans and other Americans, discussing the frequent dissonances, miscommunications, and misunderstandings that result from each coming from vastly different cultural and psychological realms.

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United States, San Diego, CA 
Monday, March 28, 2022

Headline: Alan Roland’s “Cultural Pluralism and Psychoanalysis: The Asian and North American Experience” Provides Creative Insights on European/North American Individualism Culture

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