Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora (Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life) - Hardcover

Klein, Hillel

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1936235897 ISBN 13: 9781936235896

Publisher: Academic Studies Press, 2012

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author:

Alex Holder (PhD Basel University) was born in Basel in April 1931. He studied English literature, German literature and History at Basel University, then went to London to train as a child analyst at the Anna Freud Centre and later as a psychoanalyst for adults at the British Psychoanalytical Society. In 1983 he became the head of the department for children at the psychoanalytic institute in Hamburg. From 1996 he continued in private practice before retiring to Basel in 2008.

Review:

"It is with much satisfaction that we publish Hillel Klein's Survival and Trials of Revival: Psychodynamic Studies of Holocaust Survivors and Their Families in Israel and the Diaspora as the first book of our new series. Hillel Klein, himself a Holocaust survivor, was a pioneer psychoanalyst investigator of Holocaust survivors and their families. His reconceptualization of the experience of guilt as a positive rather than a pathological emotion was a vitally important contribution that has implications far beyond the role of "survivor guilt. " Klein's own life and work, and his legacy as expressed in this book, ably edited by Alex Holder, serve as a model for the rich intersection of psychoanalysis and Jewish life." (Psychoanalysis and Jewish Life Series Editor)

About this edition

• Publisher: Academic Studies Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1936235897
• ISBN 13: 9781936235896
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 375
• Editor: Holder Alex