1st Edition
The Collective Silence German Identity and the Legacy of Shame
286 Pages
by
Gestalt Press
286 Pages
by
Gestalt Press
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The silence surrounding the Holocaust continues to prevent healing - whether of the victims, Nazis, or the generations that followed them. The telling of the stories surrounding the Holocaust - all the stories - is essential if we are to understand what happened, recognize the part of human nature that allows such atrocities to occur, and realize the hope that we can prevent it from... Read more
Translator's Introduction - Gordon Wheeler
The Editors
The Translators
The Contributors
Psychological Symptoms of the Nazi Heritage: Introduction to the German Edition
- Barbara Heimannsberg and Christoph J. Schmidt
Chapter 1. Psychotherapy and the Nazi Past: A Search for Concrete Forms - Richard Picker
Chapter 2. Farewell to My Father - Irene Anhalt
Chapter 3. I Too Took Part: Confrontations with One's Own History in Family Therapy - Heidi Salm
Chapter 4. The Psychoanalyst Without a Face: Psychoanalysis Without a History - Sammy Speier
Chapter 5. Family Reconstruction in Germany: An Attempt to Confront the Past - Margarete Hecker
Chapter 6. Effects of Lingering Nazi Worldviews in Family Life - Almuth Massing
Chapter 7. "How Can I Develop on a Mountain of Corpses?" Observations from a Theme-Centered Interaction Seminar with Isaac Zieman - Wolfgang Bornebusch
Chapter 8. Unwilling to Admit, Unable to See: Therapeutic Experiences with the National Socialist "Complex" - Waltraud Silke Behrendt
Chapter 9. The Dialogue Between the Generations About the Nazi Era - Helm Stierlin:
Chapter 10. The Work of Remembering: A Psychodynamic View of te Nazi Past as It Exists in Germany Today - Barbara Heimannsberg
Chapter 11. The Difficulty of Speaking the Unspeakable: How an Article Entitled "The Nazi Past in Psychotherapy" Was Never Written - Irene WielpÂtz
Chapter 12. Holocaust Perpetrators and their Children: A Paradoxical Morality - Dan Bar-On
Chapter 13. "Guilty!" Thoughts in Relation to My Own Past: Letters to My Son - Gunnar von Schlippe
Translator's Afterword - Cynthia Oudejans Harris
The Editors
The Translators
The Contributors
Psychological Symptoms of the Nazi Heritage: Introduction to the German Edition
- Barbara Heimannsberg and Christoph J. Schmidt
Chapter 1. Psychotherapy and the Nazi Past: A Search for Concrete Forms - Richard Picker
Chapter 2. Farewell to My Father - Irene Anhalt
Chapter 3. I Too Took Part: Confrontations with One's Own History in Family Therapy - Heidi Salm
Chapter 4. The Psychoanalyst Without a Face: Psychoanalysis Without a History - Sammy Speier
Chapter 5. Family Reconstruction in Germany: An Attempt to Confront the Past - Margarete Hecker
Chapter 6. Effects of Lingering Nazi Worldviews in Family Life - Almuth Massing
Chapter 7. "How Can I Develop on a Mountain of Corpses?" Observations from a Theme-Centered Interaction Seminar with Isaac Zieman - Wolfgang Bornebusch
Chapter 8. Unwilling to Admit, Unable to See: Therapeutic Experiences with the National Socialist "Complex" - Waltraud Silke Behrendt
Chapter 9. The Dialogue Between the Generations About the Nazi Era - Helm Stierlin:
Chapter 10. The Work of Remembering: A Psychodynamic View of te Nazi Past as It Exists in Germany Today - Barbara Heimannsberg
Chapter 11. The Difficulty of Speaking the Unspeakable: How an Article Entitled "The Nazi Past in Psychotherapy" Was Never Written - Irene WielpÂtz
Chapter 12. Holocaust Perpetrators and their Children: A Paradoxical Morality - Dan Bar-On
Chapter 13. "Guilty!" Thoughts in Relation to My Own Past: Letters to My Son - Gunnar von Schlippe
Translator's Afterword - Cynthia Oudejans Harris
Biography
Barbara Heimannsberg and Christoph J. Schmidt have private psychotherapy practices in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
"We know fragments of the Jewish horrors of the holocaust and the echoing reverberations. We need to hear, post-Holocaust, about the German Nazi dynamics and their echoes in the perpetrators and their children and grandchildren. In The Collective Silence we hear from therapists who dare to struggle with the family throes growing out of the silence of guilt. Read and weep -- again!"
- Carl A. Whitaker, M.D., Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry, University of Wisconsin
