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Written by a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, this moving and important book examines the massive psychic trauma suffered by a generation of Holocaust survivors. It provides an intimate and personal reflection on these harrowing events and offers an in-depth, clinical perspective on an often-misunderstood phenomena.
List of contents
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Legacies
Chapter 3: The War After
Chapter 4: Escape
Chapter 5: Adaptation and Maladaptation
Chapter 6: Child Survivors of the Holocaust: Groups and Groupings, Healing Wounds
Chapter 7: The Holocaust and the Power of Powerlessness: Survivor Guilt and Unhealed Wound
Chapter 8: Psychic Security: Its Origins and Development and Disruptions
Chapter 9: Life, Death and the Power of Powerlessness
Chapter 10: Inaccessible Memory: Recovered Traumatic Memory, True and False
Chapter 11: Psychic Survival Management: The Psychic Guardian and Compartmentalisation
Chapter 12: Functional Disorders of the Psychic Guardian and Pathology: Clinical Implications
About the author
Alfred Garwood, a survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, is a retired Honorary Consultant Adult Psychotherapist, a general medical practitioner and Founder of the Child Survivors’ Association of Great Britain.
Summary
Written by a survivor of the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, this moving and important book examines the massive psychic trauma suffered by a generation of Holocaust survivors. It provides an intimate and personal reflection on these harrowing events and offers an in-depth, clinical perspective on an often-misunderstood phenomena.
