Children in Genocide

by Kaplan, Suzanne; Modell, Arnold H.

• ISBN13: 9781905888153
• ISBN10: 1905888155
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-05-31
• Publisher: Karnac Books

Summary

This book, containing untold suffering by children caught in the midst of extreme social violence, gives voice to their unthinkable, unspeakable experience and makes this into a telling psychoanalytic story. It is a story of how the developing minds of these children grapple with the memories the experiences of genocide create and the triumphs and debilities which the struggle can leave in its wake. Kaplan listens with her psychoanalytic "third" ear but, remarkably, also gives scientific consideration to what she is hearing and follows through her sophisticated theoretical analysis with a grounded theory-based qualitative study.

Table of Contents

The International Psychoanalysis Library	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
About the Author	p. xiii
Foreword	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Interviewing child survivors
First contacts	p. 9
Children's experiences of war in a psychoanalytic perspective	p. 15
Child survivors and childbearing	p. 22
What is being communicated?
Analysing life histories about trauma	p. 53
Children in the Holocaust	p. 58
Anti-Semitism and racial laws	p. 61
Deportation	p. 86
The ghetto	p. 109
Hidden / fugitive / partisan	p. 121
Concentration camps and work camps	p. 130
Liberation	p. 148
Transport to Sweden: the first encounter with the new country	p. 158
Rwanda genocide, 1994	p. 171
How are memories being recalled?
Two boys-one event: how memories are recalled in interviews about massive trauma	p. 183
From conceptual models to a theory
The "affect propeller" as an analytic tool for trauma-related affects	p. 201
Trauma linking and generational linking: applications of the "affect propeller"	p. 225
Concluding remarks	p. 233
Appendix A	p. 237
Appendix B	p. 265
Notes	p. 267
References	p. 279
Index	p. 287
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