They Left It All Behind - Trauma, Loss, Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants Their

This book explores the influence of historical events and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the psychological lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children. It explores disavowal of loss, homesickness, and anti-Semitic violence, as well as parents' sacrifices and their children's success.

About the author

Hannah Hahn maintains a full-time private practice as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. After graduate-level work in English literature, she obtained a master's degree in psychology from Harvard University, a Ph.D. in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and psychoanalytic certification from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she currently supervises candidates. She taught attachment at the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. Publications and presentations include "They Left it All Behind," in M. O'Loughlin (Ed.), The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting, and "A Safe Place to Stand: The Holding Environment with Child Patients and Their Parents."

Summary

This book explores the influence of historical events and intergenerational transmission of trauma on the psychological lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants and their children. It explores disavowal of loss, homesickness, and anti-Semitic violence, as well as parents’ sacrifices and their children’s success.

Product details

• Authors: Hannah Hahn
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781442254237
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-5423-7
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: New Imago
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; PSYCHOLOGY / Emotions, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Jewish, Psychology: emotions, Social and cultural history, Relating to Jewish people and groups, Jewish Immigration;Psychology of Loss