Renewal of Life Healing from the Holocaust

by Parens, Henri

• ISBN13: 9781887563895
• ISBN10: 188756389X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-09-01
• Publisher: Schreiber Publishing

Summary

The author, a world-renowned psychoanalyst, was rescued from Nazi-occupied France as a child and brought to the United States, where he became an authority on violence in children.

Table of Contents

Poem by Primo Levi	10	(3)
Chapter 1 - Incominciamo	13	(9)
Getting Into What Happened	15	(7)
Part I - What Happened to My World
Chapter 2 - The Germans Attack Belgium...Our Exodus
10 May 1940	22	(3)
In Chaos We Leave Bruxelles	25	(3)
Summer 1940, In a French Village	28	(6)
Chapter 3 - The Camps
The Round-Up	34	(1)
Récébédou: Our First Concentration Camp	35	(7)
Rivesaltes: The Shame of Vichy-France Deepens	42	(4)
In Rivesaltes, Life Went On	46	(4)
The Move to Rivesaltes' Jewish Ghetto	50	(3)
The Question of Escaping from Rivesaltes	53	(4)
Escape from Rivesaltes	57	(2)
The Train to Marseille	59	(3)
Chapter 4 - Safety - The OSE Homes
Le Bureau d'Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Marseille	62	(1)
Boulouris: La Feuille	62	(6)
St.Raphael: La Villa Mariana	68	(8)
Chapter 5 - Going to America
Our Brief Sojourn in Marseille	76	(4)
Marseille to Casablanca	80	(2)
Across the Atlantic-Casablanca to New York	82	(6)
Arriving in America	88	(3)
Chapter 6 - The Start of My New Life
Pittsburgh, America	91	(2)
Entry into Our "New World"	93	(14)
Part II - Reflections - 60 Years Later
Chapter 7 - Trauma in the Lives of Children
"La Condition Humaine"	107	(1)
Pain Is Part of Everyday Life	108	(2)
Extremes of Psychic Pain	110	(1)
Chapter 8 - Looking Back	111	(20)
May 1 1941, 12 Years Old, I Escaped from Rivesaltes	112	(1)
Early May 1942, Came to America on Convoy #3-L' OSE Saved Many of Us	113	(3)
August 14, 1942, My Mother Was Sent to Auschwitz	116	(13)
Regarding the History of Foreign Jews in Vichy-France	129	(2)
Chapter 9 - In the Aftermath
On My Journey in Israel	131	(8)
My Post-Holocaust Travels in Germany (Munich, Berlin)	139	(7)
Retracing Past Travels (Return to Rivesaltes - Leaving Rivesaltes Behind)	146	(10)
On Visiting Drancy	156	(10)
Chapter 10 - Of Burdens That Follow from What Befell Jews in Europe of That Day
Problems for my family	166	(5)
My Problem with God and with Liturgy	171	(5)
Why Has It Taken Me so Long to Write What Happened to Us	176	(2)
The Doctor As Burden to His Patients	178	(3)
My Resistance to Writing My Witness Report	181	(2)
Guilt, Shame	183	(6)
What Was So Awful in What Happened?	189	(2)
On Things I Should Do, I Have Not Done (Auschwitz, Lodz, My Father and My Brother, Joining Holocaust Survivor Groups)	191	(8)
Part III - "Ayeika?"
Chapter 11 - Where Am I?
How Have I Come to Where I Am?	199	(2)
Studies in Early Childhood Development Open Avenues to Prevention of Social Ills	201	(3)
Chapter 12 - The Many Pitfalls and Opportunities in Child Rearing to Optimize Our Children's Development
Parents As Students	204	(4)
Toward the Prevention of Emotional Disorders in Children via Parenting Education: Preparing Children-Preparing Future Parents	208	(3)
Chapter 13 - Aggression
How It Develops and Is Shaped in Each of Us	211	(5)
The Crucial Aggression Equation: Excessive Unpleasure - Hostile Destructiveness (Examples of Children)	216	(2)
Young Children's Coping with Their Emerging Hostility and Hate	218	(5)
Defenses set up to Cope with Hostile Destructiveness toward Primary Caregivers	223	(7)
Toward the Prevention of Violence and Malignant Prejudice	230	(1)
Child Rearing and the Development of Hate and Violence	231	(6)
The Holocaust What We Experienced	237	(2)
For Each of Us: Our State of Self and of One's Relationships When It Happened	239	(10)
Chapter 14 - The Development of Prejudice - Benign and Malignant
How Do We Come to Be Prejudiced?	249	(1)
Normal Psychological Developments Make Each of Us Prejudiced	249	(1)
How the Child's Own Identity and Love Relationships Get Formed	250	(1)
The Obligatory Nature of Forging one's Identity and Enduring Relationships	251	(1)
The Role of Identification in Forming One's Identity	251	(1)
Crucial Developmental Factors that Progressively Specify Those We Love as Unique, Distinguishable from All Others	252	(2)
Stranger Anxiety and the Roots of Xenophobia	254	(2)
Our Potential for Becoming Carriers of Malignant Prejudice	256	(1)
What is the Child to Do When He Rages or Hates his Own Mother or/and Father?	256	(3)
Trauma and the Predisposition to Malignant Prejudice	259	(1)
Pause: August 14, 2003	260	(3)
Chapter 15 - I Insist, We Can Act to Reduce Malignant Prejudice and Violence	263
Reaching Out - Joining Interdisciplinary Efforts	265	(2)
We Have to Find Ways to Live Together-With Our Differences	267