Part 1. Shadows of the Holocaust -- The second generation in the shadow of terror / Ilany Kogan -- The broken chain : legacies of trauma and war / Vera Muller-Paisner -- Traumatic shutdown of narrative and symbolization : a death instinct derivative? / Dori Laub -- Clinical and historical perspectives on the intergenerational transmission of trauma / Peter Lowenberg -- Part 2. Inside the consulting room -- The intertwining of the internal and external wars / Vamik D. Volkan -- Treatment resistance and the transmission of trauma / M. Gerard Fromm -- Turns of a phrase : traumatic learning through the generations / Barri Belnap -- Intergenerational violence and the family myth / E. Virginia Demos -- A quixotic approach to trauma and psychosis / Francoise Davoine -- Part 3. Contemporary America -- A mosaic of transmissions after trauma / Howard F. Stein -- Heroes at home : the transmission of trauma in firefighters' families / Kevin V. Kelly -- Afterword : lost and found / M. Gerard Fromm
The present study explores the relationship between personality and the differing modes of participation in a sociotherapy program set in an open, voluntary, long-term psychiatric hospital, in order to further our understanding of the relationship between sociotherapy and psychotherapy. Three groups of patients were defined from the recent population of the hospital: leaders, workers, and nonworkers, and clinical and psychometric data were compared across the groups. Mode of participation, as expected, was found to be unrelated to diagnosis or severity of disturbance. TAT stories were rated for power and affiliation motivation and power motivation was found to be positively correlated with leadership for female subjects, and strongly negatively correlated with leadership for males. Affiliation needs were found to be slightly negatively correlated with the adoption of a worker role. These findings were interpreted both in terms of the psychodynamics of the individual patient and in terms of the group and institutionalforces that influence individual roles. The interaction between group and institutional dynamics and individual psychodynamics in determining behavior of hospitalpatients was stressed.
With contributions from Lord John Alderdice, Deniz Aribog an, Abdulkadir Cevik, Senem B. Cevik, Coline Covington, Robi Friedman, David Fromm, M. Gerard Fromm, Hiba Husseini, Aleksandr V. Obolonski, Ford Rowan, Regine Scholz, Edward R. Shapiro, Vamik D. VolkanThe International Dialogue Initiative (IDI) is a private, international, multidisciplinary group comprised of psychoanalysts, academics, diplomats, and other professionals who bring a psychologically informed perspective to the study and amelioration of societal conflict. It aims to provide a reflective space to enable an understanding of how the emotional and historical background of hostile relations - often related to trauma - is being experienced in the present. By doing so, antagonists can overcome resistances to dialogue and facilitate the discovery of peaceful solutions to intergroup problems. This book brings together key members of the IDI to present the theory and practice of the important work they do. At its heart, the book holds the idea that, while traumatic experiences may happen to an individual or a family, they also affect society and large-group identity over long periods of time. In that way, trauma plays out between generations and between countries.The book is divided into three parts: theory, application, and methodology. Trauma is the key thread running throughout and the distinguished contributors investigate healing, dehumanisation, memory, the pandemic, war, terrorism, identity, culture, the law, justice, and religion, among many other fascinating topics. The authors bring in case studies from all over the world, including the United States, Northern Ireland, Russia, Israel, Turkey, Germany, Egypt, and Palestine. To make sense of these, they draw on a wide range of approaches: group relations theory, group analytic theory, psychoanalysis, large-group psychology, psychodynamic theory, psychology, economics, sociology, political science, history, journalism, and the law, to name but a few. This must-read book brings theory to vivid life and brings hope that our fractured world can learn to heal
