Identification patterns of offspring of Holocaust survivors with their parents.

Felsen, Irit; Erlich, H. Shmuel

doi:10.1037/h0079205

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“…Conversely, other studies have pointed out that OHS were in no way affected in terms of personal adjustment [18-20] and that differences between OHS and control groups could suggest a specific character organization rather than psychopathology [21,22]. Specific types of interpersonal relations were found in OHS, and were related to the pattern of parental communication regarding the Holocaust [23,24].…”

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Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: a qualitative study with Brazilian offspring of Holocaust survivors

2012

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BackgroundOver the past five decades, clinicians and researchers have debated the impact of the Holocaust on the children of its survivors. The transgenerational transmission of trauma has been explored in more than 500 articles, which have failed to reach reliable conclusions that could be generalized. The psychiatric literature shows mixed findings regarding this subject: many clinical studies reported psychopathological findings related to transgenerational transmission of trauma and some empirical research has found no evidence of this phenomenon in offspring of Holocaust survivors.MethodThis qualitative study aims to detect how the second generation perceives transgenerational transmission of their parents’ experiences in the Holocaust. In-depth individual interviews were conducted with fifteen offspring of Holocaust survivors and sought to analyze experiences, meanings and subjective processes of the participants. A Grounded Theory approach was employed, and constant comparative method was used for analysis of textual data.ResultsThe development of conceptual categories led to the emergence of distinct patterns of communication from parents to their descendants. The qualitative methodology also allowed systematization of the different ways in which offspring can deal with parental trauma, which determine the development of specific mechanisms of traumatic experience or resilience in the second generation.ConclusionsThe conceptual categories constructed by the Grounded Theory approach were used to present a possible model of the transgenerational transmission of trauma, showing that not only traumatic experiences, but also resilience patterns can be transmitted to and developed by the second generation. As in all qualitative studies, these conclusions cannot be generalized, but the findings can be tested in other contexts.

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Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: a qualitative study with Brazilian offspring of Holocaust survivors

2012

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“…Secondary traumatization has been reported in several generations of combat soldiers in the immediate and long-term aftermaths of World War I1 (Rosenheck, 1986), the Vietnam War (Kulka et al, 1990), and the Israeli-Arab wars (Solomon,Mikulincer,& Waysman,199 1). Profound transgenerational shifts and strains have been documented in families of survivors of the Nazi holocaust (Felsen & Erlich, 1990). Even in the absence of wartime threats and trauma, separation due to military deployment during peacetime can result in stressful shifts in family system structure and dynamics (Ursano et al, 1989).…”

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Psychosocial Debriefing After Operation Desert Storm: Marital and Family Assessment and Intervention

Ford

Shaw

Sennhauser

et al. 1993

Journal of Social Issues

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This article provides an overview of and initial empirical findings from a preventive clinical/educational model for psychosocial assessment and intervention with the families of Operation Desert Storm (ODS) veterans. Interview and questionnaire data were obtained (a) 2–6 months after demobilization from ODS from veteran/veteran or veteran/civilian spouse couples who received conjoint time‐limited therapy and veterans from the same Reserve and National Guard Units who received one‐to‐one time‐limited therapy and (b) 12–15 months after demobilization from veterans deployed during ODS with the same military units. Principal findings are as follows: (1) the trauma and strain of war‐zone military service, family separation, and subsequent family and community readjustment take a toll on a significant minority of ODS veterans and their families that is directly related to the stress symptomatology experienced by the veteran; and (2) with timely psychosocial intervention—based on life‐span developmental and self‐psychology, family systems theory, and a communitarian social integration model—veterans and families in distress are able to substantially resolve symptoms of psychosocial malfunctioning and even begin to accrue personal and systemic benefits from their ODS stressor experiences.

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“…This is particularly important because so many investigators have not observed differences in psychopathological features characterizing children of survivors (13)(14)(15)(16) or in MMPI-derived measures of global mental health (17), anxiety, depression, or adjustment (18) and have thus attributed findings of pathology to methodological bias or other artifacts. Indeed, a common critique of studies of psychopathology in offspring of trauma survivors is that these investigations have primarily used clinical samples who may not be representative of Holocaust offspring in general (16,19).…”

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Vulnerability to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adult Offspring of Holocaust Survivors

Yehuda

Schmeidler²,

Wainberg³

et al. 1998

AJP

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Identification patterns of offspring of Holocaust survivors with their parents.

Cited by 40 publications

References 20 publications

Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: a qualitative study with Brazilian offspring of Holocaust survivors

Transgenerational transmission of trauma and resilience: a qualitative study with Brazilian offspring of Holocaust survivors

Psychosocial Debriefing After Operation Desert Storm: Marital and Family Assessment and Intervention

Vulnerability to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder in Adult Offspring of Holocaust Survivors

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