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In this unique collection, Yale literary critic Shoshana Felman and psychoanalyst Dori Laub examine the nature and function of memory and the act of witnessing, both in their general relation to the acts of writing and reading, and in their particular relation to the Holocaust. Moving from the literary to the visual, from the artistic to the autobiographical, and from the psychoanalytic to the historical, the book defines for the first time the trauma of the Holocaust as a radical crisis of witnessing "the unprecedented historical occurrence of ... an event eliminating its own witness." Through the alternation of a literary and clinical perspective, the authors focus on the henceforth modified relation between knowledge and event, literature and evidence, speech and survival, witnessing and ethics. -- Description from http://search.barnesandnoble.com (Nov. 29, 2011)

The authors draw on their clinical work with homeless persons with mental illness to outline three family-related issues that seem common to many homeless persons with mental illness: (a) conflict or structural changes in the family that may increase individuals' risk of homelessness; (b) the emotional connection individuals have to their families, and the relationship between this connection and their homelessness; and (c) the ways in which individuals' relationships with their families influence their transition from homelessness to independent living. The authors explore these issues and give case examples. The authors recommend that clinicians and case managers in homeless outreach projects offer a family-focused clinical treatment approach, regardless of the current level of contact that clients have with their families. It is critical that staff understand the relationship between homeless persons with mental illness and their families in order to best assist these individuals in their transition from homelessness to "home." Finally, the authors offer salient practice principles for homeless outreach projects that provide clinical and case-management services to this population, and explore the implications of these clinical findings for practice in other settings.