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The post-Holocaust family : a psychohistorical investigation into the intergenerational transmission of trauma / by Nina Lynn Bogaty.

Publication | Digitized | Library Call Number: RC451.4.H62 B64 1986

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Summary: This dissertation investigates the intergenerational transmission of trauma in the post-Holocaust family. It examines how the Holocaust as a traumatic historical event has impacted upon and been metabolized across three generations of a survivor family. The method of investigation is the psychobiographical case study. A series of psychobiographical portraits are presented, organized as a linked chain of psychobiographies bound together by a body of shared psychohistorical themes. Individual portraits were culled from extensive interviews with a Holocaust survivor, her son and her grandson. Their focus is a close examination of one family's unique personal, familial and cultural history. Emphasis is placed upon careful study of the content and patterns of cross-generational communication and upon the impact of Holocaust traumata on the personality development of each generation. Cross-generational traumatic effects are conceptualized not as fixed imprints that are passed unchanged from generation to generation, but instead, as dynamic forces whose shared impact is woven into the fabric of parent-child interaction and absorbed into the thrust of development in each generation.
Format: Book
Author/Creator: Bogaty, Nina Lynn.
Published: [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 1986
Notes: Thesis (Psy. D.)--Rutgers The State University of New Jersey, 1986.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-297).

Photocopy. Ann Arbor, Mich. : UMI Dissertation Services, 1996. 24 cm.

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Language: English
External Link: Electronic version from ProQuest
Additional Form: Electronic version(s) available internally at USHMM.
Physical Description: xi, 297 pages

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Subjects: Holocaust survivors--Psychology. Children of Holocaust survivors--Psychology. Grandchildren of Holocaust survivors--Psychology. Holocaust survivors--Family relationships. Psychic trauma.

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