In the Other Chair: Holocaust Survivors and the Second Generation As Therapists and Clients

by Yvonne Tauber

This book puts psychotherapists In The Other Chair. Ten psychotherapists, survivors and children of survivors of the Holocaust, explore their own biographies and professional choices and responses. The uncovering of what the author has called "a priori countertransference" is a model for training for therapeutic work with Holocaust survivors and their children, and victims of other severe traumatization. This beautifully written book invites the reader - professional and lay person alike - to personally engage in an emotional and intellectual confrontation with troubling questions with regard to human nature and social organization, that are brought up by extreme violence.

312 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1998