Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators Essays on the Nazi Holocaust

Contributors.  Foreword David A. Hamburg.  Preface.  Acknowledgments.  Part I: The Setting  Editor’s Introduction  1. The Nature of the Process Raul Hilberg  2. Historical Foundations of Anti-Semitism Patrick Girard  3. Weimar Intellectuals and the Rise of National Socialism George L. Mosse and Steven George Lampert  Part II: The Victim  Editor’s Introduction  4. The Concept of the Survivor Robert Jay Lifton  5. The Concentration Camp Syndrome and Its Late Sequelae Leo Eitinger  6. The Coping Behavior of Nazi Concentration Camp Survivors Joel E. Dimsdale  7. Late Effects – Influence on the Children of the Concentration Camp Survivor Axel Russell  8. Psychotherapy of the Survivor Paul Chodoff  9. Stress and Coping under Extreme Conditions Patricia Benner, Ethel Roskies and Richard S. Lazarus  10. Social Behavior of Concentration Camp Prisoners: Continuities and Discontinuities with Pre- and Postcamp Life Elmer Luchterhand  Part III: The Perpetrator  Editor’s Introduction  11. Excerpts from The Autobiography of Rudolph Hoess  12. Excerpts from The Diary of Joseph Goebbels  13. Excerpts from Eichmann in Jerusalem  14. Destroying the Innocent with a Clear Conscience: A Sociopsychology of the Holocaust John P. Sabini and Maury Silver  15. Personality Organization and Psychological Functioning of the Nuremberg War Criminals: The Rorschach Data Gerald L. Borofsky and Don J. Brand  16. The SS Yesterday and Today: A Sociopsychological View John M. Steiner.  Name Index.  Subject Index.

Biography

Joel E. Dimsdale is Regent Edward A. Dickson Emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at University of California San Diego. He is a former career awardee of the American Heart Association and is past-president of the Academy of Behavioral Medicine Research, the American Psychosomatic Society, and the Society of Behavioral Medicine. He is editor-in-chief emeritus of Psychosomatic Medicine and is a previous guest editor of Circulation and former editor-at-large of Journal Psychosomatic Research. He has been a consultant to the President’s Commission on Mental Health, the Institute of Medicine, the National Academies of Science, the Department of Justice, NASA, and NIH.

In addition to Survivors, Victims, and Perpetrators (originally published in 1980), he is the author of >500 publications, including Anatomy of Malice: the Enigma of the Nazi War Criminals (2016) and Dark Persuasion: the History of Brainwashing from Pavlov to Social Media (2021).