Description
Part 1: The shadow of the past; an elaboration of case studies; neurotic symptoms in the children of Hungarian holocaust survivors; five case studies of small children - grandchildren of survivors; the theoretical background - drawing on the work of Judit Kesztenberg, Aliz Balint, Geza Roheim; methodological questions; the unique psychological structure of Hungarian holocaust survivors; holocaust and neurosis. Part 2: my masters; child analysis of adults; neurotic states in childhood; attempt to explore the psychological histories behind physical diseases; an exploration of the reticent psychological histories behind physical diseases; mother mirror. Part 3: distended world; Peter - the state of a holocaust survivor family in the mirror family therapy; Abel - drawing therapy; Szandra - hidden mourning, lost identity; Lorinc - a three-generational neurosis. Part 4: Outlook; conscious and unconscious deliberations in the Tiszaeszlari trial (Hungarian Dreyfuss affair); collective trauma; afterword - in remembrance of a mulberry tree.