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- Publisher
- Guilford Press
- Copyright
- © 2010 The American Academy of Psychoanalysis and Dynamic Psychiatry
- ISSN
- 1546-0371
- DOI
- 10.1521/jaap.2010.38.2.357
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
Book Reviews Book Reviews Children in Genocide: Extreme Traumatization and Affect Regulation, by Suzanne Kaplan. International Psychoanalytic Library, London, 2008, 295 pp., $46.54 Suzanne Kaplan is a Swedish Psychoanalyst living in Stockholm and is a researcher at The Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Upsala University. The research presented in this book is based on 40 videotaped interviews with child survivors from the Holocaust of WWII and 12 videotaped interviews with child survivors of the Rwanda genocide in 1994, as well as 17 audio and videotaped follow-up interviews. Her own research is largely, though not completely, based on Steven Spielberg's project, the creation of the Shoah Visual History Foundation charged with the task of gathering worldwide testimonies from witnesses of the Holocaust. Kaplan became an interviewer in Sweden and the Swedish coordinator of the project there. It is important for the reader to realize that most of the interviews Kaplan uses as raw material for her book were intended only to gather testimony of the holocaust; they were not part of a research project to answer specific questions, such as questions concerning the impact of the massive trauma on the course of victims' lives, or on their intimate
Journal
Journal of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis & Dynamic Psychiatry – Guilford Press
Published: Jun 1, 2010