Echoes of the Trauma: Relational Themes and Emotions in Children of Holocaust Survivors »

Hadas Wiseman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Counseling and Human Development, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. She is a member of the Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR) and of the International Association for Relationship Research (IARR). She works in Israel and spent a sabbatical year in Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada. Wiseman is also a certified clinical psychologist in private practice in Tivon, Israel, and is co-author of Conversation as Method: Analyzing the Relational World of People Who Were Raised Communally.

Jacques P. Barber is Professor of Psychology, Center for Psychotherapy Research, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, USA. He is President of the Society for Psychotherapy Research. He co-authored the Handbook of Brief Dynamic Therapies; Handbook of Dynamic Psychotherapy Research and Practice: A How-to-Do-Them Guide; and Dynamic Therapies for Psychiatric Disorders (Axis 1).

Discusses the echoes of the trauma traced in the stories of the children of Holocaust survivors.

Foreword Dan Bar-On Bar-On, Dan

1 Introduction - A Narrative Approach to Bridging the Gap between Clinical Case Studies and Empirical Research on Children of Holocaust Survivors 1

2 Studying Relationship Narratives with the Core Conflictual Relationship Theme Method 13

Pt. 1 Relational themes in the narratives 25

3 Wishes for Closeness and Autonomy 27

4 The Need to Protect Vulnerable Parents and to Avoid Conflicts 58

5 "Without Words": Themes of Interpersonal Communication 79

Pt. 2 Emotions in the narratives 95

6 Anger 97

7 Guilt, Shame, and Embarrassment 118

8 Anxiety and Helplessness 133

9 Loneliness 154

10 Joy and Pride 170

Pt. 3 Healing trauma in the chain of the generations 187

11 The Second Generation's Experience of Parenting Their Adolescent Children 189

12 Growing Up to the Music of Knowing-Not Knowing: Reflections and Clinical Implications 230

Appendix 249

References 257

Index 277