On Failed Intersubjectivity: Recollections of Loneliness Experiences in Offspring of Holocaust Survivors

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry

Volumn 78, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 350-358

  Wiseman, Hadas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

adult offspring; emotional trauma; Holocaust survivors; loneliness; narratives

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT CHILDREN; CHILD; CONCENTRATION CAMPS; FEMALE; HOLOCAUST; HUMANS; INTERGENERATIONAL RELATIONS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LIFE CHANGE EVENTS; LONELINESS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; MOTHERS; PARENTING; SURVIVORS;

EID: 58249090249     PISSN: 00029432     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0014197     Document Type: Article

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