Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their PatientsJacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton Psychology Press, 2001 - 251 pàgines When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Westerners watched those who had survived the era of Soviet trauma emerge into what we hoped would be the exhilarating light of freedom. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow, painful process of progression and regression, of hope and disillusionment, of unexpected psychological barriers: invisible walls that block the progress we had hoped for. In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists, themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well after Stalin's era, and their impact on survivors and their families. They describe the psychological remnants of those years, walls that confine people by unconsciously preserving old adaptations to political terror; walls that divide one part of the mind from another, and walls that rise between one generation and the next. These therapists' stories allow us a striking glimpse into how patients' trauma evokes the therapists' own wounds; how both speaker and empathic listener find their way to a healing process, how the two began to dismantle these invisible walls. Editors Jacob D. Lindy and Robert J. Lifton have assembled compelling cases from Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Russia, Croatia, and Armenia and added their own commentary elucidating the interaction between multigenerational trauma, culture, and history. Historical sketches by eminent scholars provide further perspective on these times and events, In the detailed clinical discussions and poignant case studies, clinicians will find unique perspectives and understanding applicable to their work with anyone who has suffered under political repression. Rich with personal voices, Beyond Invisible Walls is a book into whose pages clinicians and lay readers alike will be drawn. |
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