International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma

by Yael Danieli (Editor)

Overview

In this extraordinary new text, an international array of scholars explore the enduring legacy of such social shocks as war, genocide, slavery, tyranny, crime, and disease. Among the cases addressed are - instances of genocide in Turkey, Cambodia, and Russia - the plight of the families of Holocaust survivors, atomic bomb survivors in Japan, and even the children of Nazis - the long-term effects associated with the Vietnam War and the war in Yugoslavia - and the psychology arising from the legacy of slavery in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306457388
Publisher:	Springer US
Publication date:	06/30/1998
Series:	Springer Series on Stress and Coping
Edition description:	1998
Pages:	710
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.53(h) x 0.06(d)

Table of Contents

Introduction: History and Conceptual Foundations.- I. The Nazi Holocaust.- 1. Intergenerational Memory of the Holocaust.- 2. Transgenerational Transmission of Effects of the Holocaust: The North American Research Perspective.- 3. Transgenerational Effects of the Holocaust: The Israeli Research Perspective.- 4. Children of Nazis: A Psychodynamic Perspective.- 5. “Who Am I in Relation to My Past, in Relation to the Other?” German and Israeli Students Confront the Holocaust and Each Other.- II. World War II.- 6. Conflicts in Adjustment: World War II Prisoners of War and Their Families.- 7. Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese American Internment.- 8. The Second Generation of Hibakusha, Atomic Bomb Survivors: A Psychologist’s View.- 9. Children of Dutch War Sailors and Civilian Resistance Veterans.- 10. Children of Collaborators: From Isolation toward Integration.- 11. Intergenerational Effects in Families of World War II Survivors from the Dutch East Indies: Aftermath of Another Dutch War.- III. Genocide.- 12. The Turkish Genocide of the Armenians: Continuing Effects on Survivors and Their Families Eight Decades after Massive Trauma.- 13. The Effects of Massive Trauma on Cambodian Parents and Children.- IV. The Vietnam War.- 14. Warrior Fathers and Warrior Sons: Intergenerational Aspects of Trauma.- 15. Children of Military Personnel Missing in Action in Southeast Asia.- 16. The Legacy of Combat Trauma: Clinical Implications of Intergenerational Transmission.- V. Intergenerational Effects Revealed after the Fall of Communism.- 17. Intergenerational Aspects of the Conflict in the Former Yugoslavia.- 18. Three Generations within Jewish and non-Jewish German Families after the Unification of Germany.- 19. Intergenerational Responses to Social and Political Changes:Transformation of Jewish Identity in Hungary.- VI. Indigenous Peoples.- 20. Intergenerational Aspects of Trauma for Australian Aboriginal People.- 21. Healing the American Indian Soul Wound.- 22. The Role of Dependency and Colonialism in Generating Trauma in First Nations Citizens: The James Bay Cree.- 23. Intergenerational Aspects of Ethnic Conflicts in Africa: The Nigerian Experience.- 24. Black Psychological Functioning and the Legacy of Slavery: Myths and Realities.- VII. Repressive Regimes.- 25. Stalin’s Purge and Its Impact on Russian Families.- 26. The Social Process and the Transgenerational Transmission of Trauma in Chile.- 27. Transmission of Trauma: The Argentine Case.- 28. The Impact of Culture on the Transmission of Trauma: Refugees’ Stories and Silence Embodied in Their Children’s Lives.- 29. The Second Bullet: Transgenerational Impacts of the Trauma of Conflict within a South African and World Context.- 30. Intergenerational Responses to the Persecution of the Baha’is of Iran.- VIII. Domestic Violence and Crime.- 31. Intergenerational Child Maltreatment.- 32. An Examination of Competing Explanations for the Intergenerational Transmission of Domestic Violence.- 33. Violence: Effects of Parents’ Previous Trauma on Currently Traumatized Children.- IX. Infectious and Life-Threatening Diseases.- 34. AIDS and Its Traumatic Effects on Families.- 35. Daughters of Breast Cancer Patients: Genetic Legacies and Traumas.- X. The Emerging Biology of Intergenerational Trauma.- 36. Psychobiology of Intergenerational Effects of Trauma: Evidence from Animal Studies.- 37. Phenomenology and Psychobiology of the Intergenerational Response to Trauma.- 38. Initial Clinical Evidence of Genetic Contributions to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder.- Conclusions and FutureDirections.

Editorial Reviews

Researchers and therapists explore the ways in which children of those traumatized by war, torture, and genocide inherit the legacies and memories of their parents, and suggest guidelines for treating second- generation victims. Material is organized in sections on the Nazi Holocaust, WWII, genocide, the Vietnam War, intergenerational effects revealed after the fall of communism, indigenous peoples, repressive regimes, domestic violence and crime, infectious and life-threatening diseases, and the emerging biology of intergenerational trauma. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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