Research Catalog

Title

Children in genocide : extreme traumatization and affect regulation / Suzanne Kaplan ; foreword by Arnold H. Modell.

Author

Kaplan, Suzanne

Publication

London : International Psychoanalytical Association, 2008.

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Additional Authors

• Modell, Arnold H., 1924-
• International Psycho-Analytical Association

Description

xix, 296 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"Suzanne Kaplan's book primarily focuses on children who lived in concentration camps or in hiding during the Holocaust. The author's in-depth interviews with such individuals, now in their seventies, clearly illustrate the life-long psychological scars left by extreme childhood trauma. This focus on children survivors distinguishes Suzanne Kaplan's book from many other significant psychoanalytic studies of Holocaust-related topics. Affects invaded their internal worlds and created generational collapse. Women who were child survivors had a tendency to either abstain from having children or choose to have many children." "This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling psychoanalytic story. It is a story of how the developing minds of these children grapple with the memories the experiences of genocide create and the triumphs and debilities which the struggle can leave in its wake."--book jacket.

Series Statement

International psychoanalysis library

Uniform Title

International psychoanalysis library

Subject

• Psychic trauma in children
• Children and genocide
• Adult Survivors of Child Abuse
• Child Abuse > psychology
• Homicide > Child > psychology

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 279-286) and index.

Contents

I. Interviewing child survivors. First contacts -- children's experiences of war in a psychoanalytic perspective -- Child survivors and childbearing -- II. What is being communicated? Analysing life histories about trauma -- Children in the Holocaust -- Rwanda genocide, 1994 -- III. How are memories being recalled? Two boys--one event : how memories are recalled in interviews about massive trauma -- IV. From conceptual models to a theory. The "affect propeller" as an analytic tool for trauma-related affects -- Trauma linking and generational linking : applications of the "affect propeller."

ISBN

• 9781905888153
• 1905888155

OCLC

• 232123421
• SCSB-12292555

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library