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.
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“. . . Healing the Wounds is the first anthology which illustrates the great range of theoretical perspectives and theraputic approaches that therapists have been using -- mainly in North America -- in their work with this population. It is 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
“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
“a fascinating, thought-provoking book . . . Healing Their Wounds presents a complementarity of viewpoints that permits the reader to achieve his own synthesis. I was impressed by the well documented analysis of the stages of reaction to the horror of the Holocaust that both survivors and the psychotherapeutic community had to experience . . . all will be enriched and stimulated by what is contained in this carefully edited book.”–Otto F. Kernberg, M.D. Associate Chairman and Medical Director The New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center
“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.
“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.”–
“a fascinating, thought-provoking book . . . Healing Their Wounds presents a complementarity of viewpoints that permits the reader to achieve his own synthesis. I was impressed by the well documented analysis of the stages of reaction to the horror of the Holocaust that both survivors and the psychotherapeutic community had to experience . . . all will be enriched and stimulated by what is contained in this carefully edited book.”–
“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.”–
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.
ALAN ROSENBERG is a Lecturer in the Department of Philosophy at Queens College.
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Paul Marcus, Ph.D. is a psychoanalyst/psychologist specializing in the treatment of difficult teenagers and young adults, trauma, high-conflict couples and divorce. He is a frequently used court-appointed forensic evaluator in New York Supreme and Family Courts. Dr. Marcus has authored/edited fourteen books,most recently, Theater as Life. Practical Wisdom Drawn From Great Acting Teaches, Actors and Actresses
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