The Psychological Perspectives of the Holocaust and of Its Aftermath

by Randolph L. Braham

This volume the 11th in the series is the outgrowth of a conference held at the City University of New York, 1987. Ten essays address the "survivor syndrome," and the historical, philosophical and anthropological interpretations of the Nazis' war against Jews. Several of the essays deal with the therapeutic alternatives available for treating the psychological and psychiatric problems of Holocaust survivors and their descendents. No subject index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.

225 pages, Hardcover

First published October 15, 1988

About the author

A political scientist and Holocaust survivor whose parents were killed at Auschwitz, Dr. Braham came to the United States in 1948. He received a bachelor’s degree in economics and government and a master’s in education from City College. He received a doctorate in political science from the New School for Social Research. He was a professor at the City University of New York, where he founded the Graduate Center’s Rosenthal Institute for Holocaust Studies. He was an expert on the Holocaust in Hungary and was best known for The Politics of Genocide: The Holocaust in Hungary.