Contributors
Acknowledgments
Preface
1. Editor's Introduction
2. Legacy of Trauma and Loss, Jacob D. Lindy
3. Hungary: Replacing a Missing Stone, Nora Csiszer and Eva
Katona
4. German Democratic Republic: Absorbing the Sins of the Fathers,
HeikeBernhardt
5. Romania: A Time of Yielding, IonCucliciu
6. Russia: An Emptiness Within, FyodorKonkov
7. Croatia: Old Scars, New Wounds, VaskoMuacevic
8. Armenia: Aftershocks, Levon Jernazian andAnie Kalayjian
9. Invisible Walls, Jacob D. Lindy
10. History as Trauma, Robert Jay Lifton
Afterword
Glossary
References
Index
Jacob D. Lindy, MD, is Training and Supervising Analyst and past Director of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also co-director of the University of Cincinnati Traumatic Stress Study Center and guest teacher at institutes in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Robert Jay Lifton, MD, is a leader in the study of trauma and history in the twentieth century and the author of numerous books on the psychological dimension of historical events. He is in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.
"Beyond Invisible Walls is a stunning, groundbreaking
accomplishment. Lindy and Lifton, two pioneers in the field of
traumatic stress research, have blended clinical insights into the
ways in which totalitarian nation states create trauma to
manipulate individuals, cultures, and intergenerational patterns of
communication. This brilliant book pushes the envelope of
understanding psychological trauma and post-traumatic effects to
society. It develops new conceptual paradigms of trauma,
psychotherapy, and psychohistory. This book will be a classic and
is a 'must read'." -- John P. Wilson, Ph.D., Professor of
Psychology, Cleveland State University, and Past-President,
International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies
"Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy ofSoviet Trauma,
Eastern European Therapists and TheirPatients, is a huge book, many
times larger than its 251 pages. It raises a multitude of issues,
such as the effects of trauma and loss, the role of the outer world
in the development of self, the correspondents of the analysts, and
patients, experience, and the resilience of the human being subject
to the most extreme conditions. The reader does not expect any
final resolution but is left deeply appreciative of the attempts
and hungry for more. Clearly, this book is not a final product. One
fervently hopes that it will be widely read and a beginning." --
The American Journal of Psychoanalysis
"The editors went through a commendable effort to locate Eastern
European practitioners and recover their voices. This
psychohistorical approach is an exemplary attempt to do "history
from below" by linking individual biographies to political culture.
The various contributions deal with such diverse aspects as the
links between childrearing practices, pathology, and the political
system, and the effect of dislocation, war, and torture on
individual patients. Some of the chapters (especially the chapter
on Romania) can be harrowing reading, attesting to the grossest of
human rights abuses." -- Journal of History of the Behavioral
Sciences, Spring 2003
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