The myth of creating an integrative story: The therapeutic experience of Holocaust survivors

Qualitative Health Research

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 692-712

  Shamai, Michal ^a   Levin Megged, Orna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b Amecha   (Israel)

Author keywords

Holocaust; Psychotherapy; Qualitative evaluation; Survivors; Trauma

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO MENTAL ILLNESS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRIME; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; LIFE EVENT; LIFE HISTORY; MALE; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PHENOMENOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOTHERAPY; PSYCHOTRAUMA; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; SELF HELP; TREATMENT PLANNING;

AGED; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTERVIEWS; ISRAEL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOTHERAPY; SURVIVORS;

EID: 33645582434     PISSN: 10497323     EISSN: 15527557     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1049732306286699     Document Type: Article

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