PMID: 2094490Nov 1, 1990Paper

Psychotherapy of loss and grief

Santé mentale au Québec
J Stern

Abstract

For many years, survivors of the Holocaust in Israel and elsewhere have made little space in their lives for past memories. Indeed, they feared being overcome by them and influencing their children negatively as a result. When these people reach the age of putting their whole life into perspective, the mourning and loss processes are reactivated by the need to hold testimony. Also, they seek to be part of the continuity of crucial events that marked their past, particularly concerning the separation from their family of origin, network of friends and cultural community. Furthermore, since people belonging to the second generation grew up with this separation from family roots, they would develop fantasies often linked to a somewhat guilty complex. The authors present two clinical cases to illustrate each of the two themes in the article.

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