Case Study on "Interview Was Conducted With Mrs. Elena Ionescu"

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Interview was conducted with Mrs. Elena Ionescu, a 39-years old national from Romania living in the United States for the last 7 years. A mother of two, Mrs. Ionescu was a surgeon in Romania before relocating to the United States with her husband. Initially, she worked as a nurse for the first 5 years, a period during which she was also able to complete U.S. examinations and obtain the right to activate as a physician in the same hospital. The interview has covered issues for the whole 7-years period, equivalent with her stay in the United States and was meant to discover and describe various traits of her personality, as they appear from the discussion with her.

From a psychodynamic approach, the interview revealed the sense of inferiority with which Mrs. Ionescu was integrated in the new society she entered, aged 32. We can probably make an equivalence between this and Adler's theory according to which "each of us is born into the world with a sense of inferiority." For Mrs. Ionescu, coming to the U.S. As an emigrant meant leaving all her friends back in Romania, her job and social position, the appreciation of her colleagues in the hospital and of the medical community etc.

She described arriving in the U.S. As being reborn and having to learn all things you had begun to take for granted and be accustomed to back home. Even more importantly, her Romanian medical diploma and studies were not recognized and she had to take new classes and pass all the exams all over again. As she had to have the financial capacity to survive in society, she accepted a job as a nurse at the Bradley Memorial Hospital & Health Centre, in Southington, Connecticut. At the same time, her husband, a former software developer in Romania, worked as a taxi driver for 2 years before finding a job as a developer at one of the local companies.

Mrs. Ionescu's sense of inferiority derived from the way she was integrated in the new society AND from her former position in the Romanian society. As mentioned, she had to pass from a respected surgeon whose services everybody sought in Bucharest to an immigrant nurse everybody pretty much ignored during the first months on the job. However, her reaction fits excellently with Adler's theory and general psychodynamic theories. Indeed, she worked from the first moment on the job to overcome difficulties and strived for superiority. She told us in the interview that this was not only a job-related issue, but also a challenge about her overall integration in society. She learned to get along with her new colleagues, many of them immigrants themselves, looking for a better life in the U.S. The fact that she joined night school to complete the necessary courses helped her overcome any inferiority complex that could have developed.

From a psychodynamic perspective, her ego, following Erik Erikson's belief and theories, helped her drive forward towards achieving her goals. The fact that she had a job and a family she needed to take care of did not stop her from successfully completing her studies. Her ego, pride, belief that she would be able to succeed made her strive to achieve what she had come to America to find. She declared in the interview that, at times, she felt like quitting and going back home to Romania, but it was a sense of pride and confidence that things would eventually pull together for her that made her stay.

Looking at some of Erikson's eight stages of development, many of them were recognizable in Mrs. Ionescu's experience from her descriptions, notably the trust vs. mistrust case (the initial mistrust in the entire American society gradually transformed itself in a more receptive state), industry vs. inferiority and generativity vs. stagnation.

From a humanistic perspective, the interview relieved the fact that Mrs. Ionescu axed her entire perspective into the present she was living in the United States. Indeed, she told us during the interview that she could not afford to look back into the past into the period she was entirely successful in Romania and truly happy, but work hard in the present so as to achieve a… READ MORE

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