The primal scene of atrocity: The dynamic interplay between knowledge and fantasy of the holocaust in children of survivors

Psychoanalytic Psychology

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 360-377

  Auerhahn, Nanette C ^a,c   Laub, Dori ^b  

^a Bellefaire Jewish Children's Bureau   (United States)

^b YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Bellefaire   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHILD PARENT RELATION; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; DISASTER; HUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; REVIEW; VICTIM;

EID: 0032459014     PISSN: 07369735     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0736-9735.15.3.360     Document Type: Review

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