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Psychoanalysis and holocaust testimony : unwanted memories of social trauma, edited by Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger

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Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. A range of contributors draw upon their own clinical work, and on research findings from work with seriously disturbed Holocaust survivors, to illuminate how best to conduct clinical work with such patients in order to maximise the chances of a positive outcome, and to reflect transferred trauma for the clinician. They closely examine the phenomenology of destruction inherent in the discourse of extreme traumatization, focusing on a particular case study: the recording of video testimonies from a group of extremely traumatized, chronically hospitalized Holocaust survivors in psychiatric institutions in Israel. This case study demonstrates how society reacts to unwanted memories, in media, history, and psychoanalysis but it also shows how psychotherapists and researchers try to approach the buried memories of the survivors, through being receptive to shattered life narratives. Questions of bearing witness, testimony, the role of denial, and the impact of traumatic narrative on society and subsequent generations are explored. A central thread of this book is the unconscious countertransference resistance to the trauma discourse, which manifests itself in arenas that are widely apart, such as genocide denial, the "disappearance" of the hospitalized Holocaust survivors and of their life stories, mishearing their testimonies and ultimately refusing them the diagnosis of "traumatic psychosis." Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony provides an essential, multidisciplinary guide to working psychoanalytically with severely traumatised patients. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trauma studies therapists
Language
eng
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Extent
xv, 324 pages
Contents
  • Part I. Social trauma in psychoanalytic practice and research : media and history. Treatment, trauma, and catastrophic reality : a double understanding of the "too much" experience and its implications for treatment / Werner Bohleber ; Knowing and not knowing : forms of traumatic memory / Dori Laub and Nanette Auerhahn ; Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization : a failed empathy derivative. Implications for therapeutic interventions / Dori Laub ; Genocidal trauma : individual and social consequences of assault on the mental and physical life of a group / Andreas Hamburger ; The psychoanalysis of psychosis at the crossroads of individual stories and of history / Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière ; The developmental psychology of social trauma and violence : the case of the Rwanda genocide / Suzanne Kaplan and Andreas Hamburger
  • Part II. Perspectives on testimony. The question of my German heritage / Johanna Bodenstab ; Visible witness : watching the footprints of trauma / Daniel Dayan ; Reflections of voice and countenance in historiography : methodological considerations on clinical video testimonies of traumatized Holocaust survivors in historical research / Sonja Knopp ; Scenic-narrative microanalysis : controlled psychoanalytic assessment of session videos or transcripts as a transparent qualitative research instrument / Andreas Hamburger
  • Part III. Exploration in the social void : the Israel video testimony project. The psychiatrically hospitalized survivors in Israel : a historical overview / Rakefet Zalashik ; The Israel project story / Dori Laub ; The Israel story : my story / Irit Felsen ; Video testimony of long-term hospitalized psychiatrically ill Holocaust survivors / Rael Strous ; The institutional experience : patients and staff responding to the testimony project / Baruch N. Greenwald ; Traumatic psychosis : narrative forms of the muted witness / Dori Laub and Irit Felsen ; Counter-testimony, counter-archive / Amit Pinchevski
  • Part IV. Manifestations of extreme traumatization in the testimonial narration of hospitalized and non-hospitalized Holocaust survivors : two case studies. Introduction / Dori Laub ; Parapraxis in mother-daughter testimony : unconscious fantasy and maternal function / Johanna Bodenstab ; Narrative fissures, historical context : when traumatic memory is compromised / Sonja Knopp ; Refracted attunement, affective resonance : scenic-narrative microanalysis of entangled presences in a Holocaust survivor's video testimony / Andreas Hamburger ; Discussion of Bodenstab, Knopp and Hamburger / Dori Laub
  • Part V. Conclusions. Unwanted memory : an open-ended conclusion / Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger ; Epilogue / Donald Moss
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9781138859203
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Psychoanalysis and holocaust testimony : unwanted memories of social trauma
Title
Psychoanalysis and holocaust testimony
Title remainder
unwanted memories of social trauma
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edited by Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger
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Editor
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Language
eng
Summary
Psychoanalytic work with socially traumatised patients is an increasingly popular vocation, but remains extremely demanding and little covered in the literature. A range of contributors draw upon their own clinical work, and on research findings from work with seriously disturbed Holocaust survivors, to illuminate how best to conduct clinical work with such patients in order to maximise the chances of a positive outcome, and to reflect transferred trauma for the clinician. They closely examine the phenomenology of destruction inherent in the discourse of extreme traumatization, focusing on a particular case study: the recording of video testimonies from a group of extremely traumatized, chronically hospitalized Holocaust survivors in psychiatric institutions in Israel. This case study demonstrates how society reacts to unwanted memories, in media, history, and psychoanalysis but it also shows how psychotherapists and researchers try to approach the buried memories of the survivors, through being receptive to shattered life narratives. Questions of bearing witness, testimony, the role of denial, and the impact of traumatic narrative on society and subsequent generations are explored. A central thread of this book is the unconscious countertransference resistance to the trauma discourse, which manifests itself in arenas that are widely apart, such as genocide denial, the "disappearance" of the hospitalized Holocaust survivors and of their life stories, mishearing their testimonies and ultimately refusing them the diagnosis of "traumatic psychosis." Psychoanalysis and Holocaust Testimony provides an essential, multidisciplinary guide to working psychoanalytically with severely traumatised patients. It will appeal to psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists and trauma studies therapists
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616.85/21
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index present
LC call number
RC552.P67
LC item number
P79 2017
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
NLM call number
  • 2017 E-270
  • WM 172.5
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  • Laub, Dori
  • Hamburger, Andreas
Series statement
Relational perspectives book series RBPS
Series volume
v. 79
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  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
  • Holocaust
  • Psychoanalytic Therapy
  • Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
  • Post-traumatic stress disorder
  • Psychological aspects
  • Erinnerung
  • Judenvernichtung
  • Posttraumatisches Stresssyndrom
  • Psychoanalyse
  • Überlebender
  • Videoaufzeichnung
  • Völkermord
  • Zeitzeuge
  • Israel
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Psychoanalysis and holocaust testimony : unwanted memories of social trauma, edited by Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger
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Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents
Part I. Social trauma in psychoanalytic practice and research : media and history. Treatment, trauma, and catastrophic reality : a double understanding of the "too much" experience and its implications for treatment / Werner Bohleber ; Knowing and not knowing : forms of traumatic memory / Dori Laub and Nanette Auerhahn ; Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization : a failed empathy derivative. Implications for therapeutic interventions / Dori Laub ; Genocidal trauma : individual and social consequences of assault on the mental and physical life of a group / Andreas Hamburger ; The psychoanalysis of psychosis at the crossroads of individual stories and of history / Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière ; The developmental psychology of social trauma and violence : the case of the Rwanda genocide / Suzanne Kaplan and Andreas Hamburger -- Part II. Perspectives on testimony. The question of my German heritage / Johanna Bodenstab ; Visible witness : watching the footprints of trauma / Daniel Dayan ; Reflections of voice and countenance in historiography : methodological considerations on clinical video testimonies of traumatized Holocaust survivors in historical research / Sonja Knopp ; Scenic-narrative microanalysis : controlled psychoanalytic assessment of session videos or transcripts as a transparent qualitative research instrument / Andreas Hamburger -- Part III. Exploration in the social void : the Israel video testimony project. The psychiatrically hospitalized survivors in Israel : a historical overview / Rakefet Zalashik ; The Israel project story / Dori Laub ; The Israel story : my story / Irit Felsen ; Video testimony of long-term hospitalized psychiatrically ill Holocaust survivors / Rael Strous ; The institutional experience : patients and staff responding to the testimony project / Baruch N. Greenwald ; Traumatic psychosis : narrative forms of the muted witness / Dori Laub and Irit Felsen ; Counter-testimony, counter-archive / Amit Pinchevski -- Part IV. Manifestations of extreme traumatization in the testimonial narration of hospitalized and non-hospitalized Holocaust survivors : two case studies. Introduction / Dori Laub ; Parapraxis in mother-daughter testimony : unconscious fantasy and maternal function / Johanna Bodenstab ; Narrative fissures, historical context : when traumatic memory is compromised / Sonja Knopp ; Refracted attunement, affective resonance : scenic-narrative microanalysis of entangled presences in a Holocaust survivor's video testimony / Andreas Hamburger ; Discussion of Bodenstab, Knopp and Hamburger / Dori Laub -- Part V. Conclusions. Unwanted memory : an open-ended conclusion / Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger ; Epilogue / Donald Moss
Control code
941193031
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xv, 324 pages
Isbn
9781138859203
Lccn
2016006774
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unmediated
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rdamedia
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  • n
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(OCoLC)941193031
Label
Psychoanalysis and holocaust testimony : unwanted memories of social trauma, edited by Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger
Publication
Copyright
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
Part I. Social trauma in psychoanalytic practice and research : media and history. Treatment, trauma, and catastrophic reality : a double understanding of the "too much" experience and its implications for treatment / Werner Bohleber ; Knowing and not knowing : forms of traumatic memory / Dori Laub and Nanette Auerhahn ; Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization : a failed empathy derivative. Implications for therapeutic interventions / Dori Laub ; Genocidal trauma : individual and social consequences of assault on the mental and physical life of a group / Andreas Hamburger ; The psychoanalysis of psychosis at the crossroads of individual stories and of history / Francoise Davoine and Jean-Max Gaudillière ; The developmental psychology of social trauma and violence : the case of the Rwanda genocide / Suzanne Kaplan and Andreas Hamburger -- Part II. Perspectives on testimony. The question of my German heritage / Johanna Bodenstab ; Visible witness : watching the footprints of trauma / Daniel Dayan ; Reflections of voice and countenance in historiography : methodological considerations on clinical video testimonies of traumatized Holocaust survivors in historical research / Sonja Knopp ; Scenic-narrative microanalysis : controlled psychoanalytic assessment of session videos or transcripts as a transparent qualitative research instrument / Andreas Hamburger -- Part III. Exploration in the social void : the Israel video testimony project. The psychiatrically hospitalized survivors in Israel : a historical overview / Rakefet Zalashik ; The Israel project story / Dori Laub ; The Israel story : my story / Irit Felsen ; Video testimony of long-term hospitalized psychiatrically ill Holocaust survivors / Rael Strous ; The institutional experience : patients and staff responding to the testimony project / Baruch N. Greenwald ; Traumatic psychosis : narrative forms of the muted witness / Dori Laub and Irit Felsen ; Counter-testimony, counter-archive / Amit Pinchevski -- Part IV. Manifestations of extreme traumatization in the testimonial narration of hospitalized and non-hospitalized Holocaust survivors : two case studies. Introduction / Dori Laub ; Parapraxis in mother-daughter testimony : unconscious fantasy and maternal function / Johanna Bodenstab ; Narrative fissures, historical context : when traumatic memory is compromised / Sonja Knopp ; Refracted attunement, affective resonance : scenic-narrative microanalysis of entangled presences in a Holocaust survivor's video testimony / Andreas Hamburger ; Discussion of Bodenstab, Knopp and Hamburger / Dori Laub -- Part V. Conclusions. Unwanted memory : an open-ended conclusion / Dori Laub and Andreas Hamburger ; Epilogue / Donald Moss
Control code
941193031
Dimensions
24 cm.
Extent
xv, 324 pages
Isbn
9781138859203
Lccn
2016006774
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
System control number
(OCoLC)941193031

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