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Attachment and traumatic stress in female holocaust child survivors and their daughters.
- Source :
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The American journal of psychiatry [Am J Psychiatry] 2003 Jun; Vol. 160 (6), pp. 1086-92. - Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- Objective: During the Holocaust, extreme trauma was inflicted on children who experienced it. Two questions were central to the current investigation. First, do survivors of the Holocaust still show marks of their traumatic experiences, even after more than 50 years? Second, was the trauma passed on to the next generation?<br />Method: Careful matching of Holocaust survivors and comparison subjects was employed to form a research study design with three generations, including 98 families with a grandmother, a mother, and an infant, who engaged in attachment- and trauma-related interviews, questionnaires, and observational procedures.<br />Results: Holocaust survivors (now grandmothers) showed more signs of traumatic stress and more often lack of resolution of trauma than comparison subjects, but they were not impaired in general adaptation. Also, the traumatic effects did not appear to transmit across generations.<br />Conclusions: Holocaust survivors may have been able to protect their daughters from their war experiences, although they themselves still suffer from the effects of the Holocaust.
- Subjects :
- Adaptation, Psychological
Adult
Aged
Child
Child of Impaired Parents
Female
Humans
Israel epidemiology
Jews psychology
Life Change Events
Mother-Child Relations
Personality Inventory
Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
Social Adjustment
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic epidemiology
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic psychology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Warfare
Family Relations
Holocaust psychology
Object Attachment
Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic diagnosis
Survivors psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0002-953X
- Volume :
- 160
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- The American journal of psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 12777266
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.160.6.1086