Why an ethnopsychiatric group for children of Holocaust survivors ?
Since the 70’s, the psychology and psychopathology of children of survivors has generated an abundant literature. What conclusions were arrived at? It was never possible to show that children of survivors were more prone to neurosis or schizophrenia, or any other given pathology. In fact, attempts at theorizing the psychology of this population have given rise to an infinite number of propositions, usually psychoanalytically based, which account for the theoretical models of the authors rather than the specificity of the people in question[4]. This isn’t surprising given that we are faced with a fundamental methodological error, a remakable contradiction: when psychiatry, psychoanalysis and psychology take interest in children of Holocaust survivors, they implicitly assume the existence of a culturally determined category (Jews), and yet they lack concepts, notions, or technical methods designed to apprehend ethnic specificity. On the contrary, psychiatry and psychoanalysis like medici
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