Synopses & Reviews
A revelation and a source of hope. Background essays give a historical overview of how the early pessimistic concentration on pathology has given way to greater emphasis on survivors' adaptive potential and strengths. Many contributors stress the importance of remembering and facing the pain that memory brings, an emphasis shared by Jewish tradition.
Jewish Chronicle
This is the first comprehensive anthology on the psychological treatment of Holocaust survivors and their families. It covers the full range of current theoretical and therapeutic approaches. It is a major resource for the clinician working with Holocaust survivors and their children, persecuted and traumatized populations, and patients suffering from post-traumatic stress syndrome. The chapters are organized around differing perspectives--classical psychoanalytic, self-psychological, group, family, pastoral, empirical research, eclectic. The editors include writings not usually part of the mainstream and focus on relevant yet often unnoticed issues.
This book gives its reader a good sense of how a discipline has struggled and evolved in its efforts to understand the impact of an historical event on its victims. The field's diversity of viewpoints and major controversies are put into sharp focus in this volume. It allows the reader--whether practicing clinician, academic researcher, or lay person--the opportunity to compare a wide range of approaches and draw conclusions. While primarily functioning as a resource, it will also serve as historical record to the Holocaust's unprecedented evil.
Review
The editors of this book deserve the thanks of the community of psychotherapists working with survivors, their families and children, for giving us a book that cuts across many modalities of treatment . . . the journey through this book is worth undertaking.from the foreword by Martin S. Bergmann
Review
"The editors of this book deserve the thanks of the community of psychotherapists working with survivors, their families and children, for giving us a book that cuts across many modalities of treatment . . . the journey through this book is worth undertaking." - from the foreword by Martin S. Bergmann
Review
This book is the most balanced, comprehensive and authoritative volume to appear on the painful therapeutic challenge of healing the wounds of the victims, direct and indirect, of the Nazi Holocaust. Every aspect of the problem is covered in judicious, sensitive and scientific fashion. The social, scientific, and historical message of this volume far transcends the boundaries of therapy alone.Jacob A. Arlow, M.D.
Synopsis
"A revelation and a source of hope. Background essays give a historical overview of how the early pessimistic concentration on pathology has given way to greater emphasis on survivors' adaptive potential and strengths. Many contributors stress the importance of remembering and facing the pain that memory brings, an emphasis shared by Jewish tradition." Jewish Chronicle
About the Author
PAUL MARCUS is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice and Secretary of The New York Psychoanalytic Society's Group for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Effect of the Holocaust on the Second Generation.ALAN ROSENBERG is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Queens College.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Martin S. Bergmann
Preface by Paul Marcus and Alan Rosenberg
Background
The Holocaust Survivor and Psychoanalysis by George M. Kren
Holocaust Survivors and Their Children: A Review of the Clinical Literature by Arlene Steinberg
Classical Theory
Therapeutic Work with Survivors and Their Children: Recurrent Themes and Problems by Martin E. Jucovy
Transposition Revisited: Clinical, Therapeutic and Developmental Considerations by Judith S. Kestenberg
Self-Psychology
The Emerging Self in the Survivor Family by Joan T. Freyberg
Treatment Issues with Survivors and Their Offspring: An Interview with Anna Ornstein by Paul Marcus and Alan Rosenberg
Group and Family Approaches
Group Treatment as a Therapeutic Modality for Generations of the Holocaust by Eva Fogelman
A Family Therapy Approach to Holocaust Survivor Families by Esther Perel and Jack Saul
Pastoral Perspectives
The Holocaust Survivor in the Synagogue Community: Issues and Perspectives on Pastoral Care by Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik
The Rabbi and the Holocaust Survivor by Rabbi Martin S. Cohen
Empirical Studies
Transgenerational Effects of the Concentration Camp Experience by Moshe Almagor and Gloria R. Leon
Clinical and Gerontological Issues Facing Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust by Boaz Kahana, Zev Harel, and Eva Kahana
Special Problems
Alternative Therapeutic Approaches to Holocaust Survivors by Robert Krell
The Religious Life of Holocaust Survivors and Its Significance for Psychotherapy by Paul Marcus and Alan Rosenberg
Mourning the Yiddish Language and Some Implications for Treatment by Janet Hadda
From Jew to Catholic--and Back: Psychodynamics of Child Survivors by Margrit Wreschner Rustow
Selected Bibliography
Index