Children in Genocide: Extreme Traumatization and Affect Regulation

by Suzanne Kaplan, Arnold H. Modell

Overview

This book deals with affects and memories from extreme traumatization of Jewish survivors, who were children themselves during the Holocaust, and teenagers who survived the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, presenting an illustration of how complex affect regulating is for traumatized individuals.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367323714
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/05/2019
Series:	The International Psychoanalytical Association International Psychoanalysis Library
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

Foreword — Introduction — Interviewing Child Survivors — First contacts — Children's experiences of war in a psychoanalytic perspective — Child survivors and childbearing — What Is Being Communicated? — Analysing life histories about trauma — Children in the Holocaust — Rwanda genocide, 1994 — How Are Memories Being Recalled? — Two boys–one event: how memories are recalled in interviews about massive trauma — From Conceptual Models to a Theory — The “affect propeller” as an analytic tool for trauma-related affects — Trauma linking and generational linking: applications of the “affect propeller” — Concluding remarks — Appendix A — Appendix B