Survival and Trials of Revival : : Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora / / Hillel Klein; ed. by Alex Holder.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
• VerfasserIn: Klein, Hillel,
• MitwirkendeR: Bauer, Yehuda,; Holder, Alex,; Klein, Hillel,; Nedelmann, Carl,
• HerausgeberIn: Holder, Alex,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (375 p.)

This book offers psychodynamic studies of Holocaust survivors and their families in Israel and the Diaspora. It is a most moving account of the desperate struggles of these survivors to overcome their horrendous experiences in the ghettos and concentration camps and their subsequent attempts to revive their lives after the Second World War. Hillel Klein, the author, was himself one of these Holocaust survivors. Later, as a psychoanalyst, Klein interviewed survivors in Israel and the United States of America and evaluated the consequences of the Holocaust and its aftermath from a psychoanalytic point of view which, together with his own memories contained in this book, gives it a special depth and contributes to making it a most moving account.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Prologue -- Introduction -- 1. The Survivor’s Search for Meaning -- Part I: Oppression and Survival -- 2. On the Eve of the Apocalypse -- 3. Life and Death in the Ghetto -- 4. Life in Hiding and False Identity -- 5. The Disintegration of the Ghetto and the World of the Concentration Camp -- Part II: Society and the Survivor -- 6. The Survivor in the Immediate Aftermath of the Holocaust (1945–1948) -- 7. Encounter: The Survivor versus Society -- 8. The Impact of the Psychosocial Environment: The Holocaust and the Yom Kippur War -- Part III: Survivors and Their Families -- 9. Psychological Issues in Families of Survivors in Israel -- 10. Families of Holocaust Survivors in Israeli Cities and Kibbutzim -- Part IV: The Psychotherapeutic Treatment of Survivors and Their Families -- 11. Delayed Affects and Aftereffects of Severe Traumatization -- 12. Problems of Countertransference in the Psychotherapy of Holocaust Survivors and Their Children -- 13. Mourning and Survivor Guilt -- 14. The Dilemma of the Survivor in Psychoanalytic Treatment -- Epilogue -- Afterword -- Literature -- Index of Names -- Subject Index