282 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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As the children of the Holocaust reach adulthood, they often need professional help in establishing a new identity and self-esteem. During their childhood their parents have unconsciously transmitted to them much of their own trauma, investing them with all their memories and hopes, so that they become 'memorial candles' to those who did not survive. The book combines verbatim transcriptions of... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Survivor parents - uprooting and separation traumas; Chapter 2 Designating the children as ‘memorial candles’; Chapter 3 The dialogue between survivor mothers and their infants; Chapter 4 Identification with death; Chapter 5 The aggressor and the victim; Chapter 6 Self-esteem and sexual identity; Chapter 7 Parting from the role of ‘memorial candle’;
Biography
Born in Italy in 1938, Dina Wardi was taken to Israel by her Zionist parents at the age of one year and thus escaped the fate of her people in the Holocaust. She lives in Jerusalem, where she conducts her psychotherapeutic practice.
` ... great value to all those whose work brings them face to face with the traumatic effects of the Holocaust upon survivors of all nationalities and their children ... special interest to those involved in the study of post-traumatic stress in general and intergenerational trauma transmission in particular.' - American Academy of Psychoanalysis Journal
`A powerful, richly informative book.' - Jewish Chronicle
