Holocaust victims and perpetrators

The author presents here the results of 12 years of work with a group of psychotherapists in Germany on the subject of the after-effects of the Nazi period on people in psychotherapeutic treatment today. She identifies several typical complexes concerned with issues of identity, loyalty, relationshi...

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Published in:Journal of analytical psychology Vol. 57; no. 4; pp. 413 - 424
Main Author: Wieland-Burston, Joanne
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.09.2012
Subjects:
Aggression - psychology
collective past
Germany
Guilt
Holocaust - psychology
Humans
identity complex
Jews - psychology
loyalty
National Socialism
Nazi child education
Psychoanalytic Therapy
shadow
Shame
Social Identification
Survivors - psychology
symbiotic
Third Reich
Germany
identity complex
shadow
loyalty
symbiotic
Third Reich
collective past
Nazi child education
ISSN:0021-8774, 1468-5922, 1468-5922
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Summary:The author presents here the results of 12 years of work with a group of psychotherapists in Germany on the subject of the after-effects of the Nazi period on people in psychotherapeutic treatment today. She identifies several typical complexes concerned with issues of identity, loyalty, relationship, authority and aggression. Case examples and references to texts from the Nazi period illustrate the phenomena. The author's concern is that psychotherapists be aware of their own collective (family, ethnic, national) past so that they can fully engage in their work without having to repress painful collective complexes. In training analysis this aspect of the work is especially important so that the following generations of analysts can experience the importance of this level of the collective unconscious.
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ISSN:0021-8774
1468-5922
1468-5922
DOI:10.1111/j.1468-5922.2012.01983.x