Jewishness and psychoanalysis - the relationship to identity, trauma and exile. An interview study
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The relationship between psychoanalysis and Jewishness has been debated for over one hundred years and the derogatory term ”Jewish science” has been used to describe psychoanalysis. Because of the Nazi regime both Jewish and non-Jewish psychoanalysts left their homelands. In this study, aging Jewish individuals born in Central Europe and forced into exile were interviewed concerning their perceptions of psychoanalysis and Jewishness, of Jewish identity and exile. Anti-Semitism had influenced their perceptions of their work in the psychoanalytic field. The findings are discussed in relation to the current position of psychoanalysis as well as to questions of trauma and exile.
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Diaspora Emigration Main Topic: Identity and Community Jewish Identity Psychotherapy / Psychoanalysis Refugees Interviews Ageing and the Elderly
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This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way.
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20(2)
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140-152
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Jewishness and psychoanalysis - the relationship to identity, trauma and exile. An interview study. 2019: 140-152. https://archive.jpr.org.uk/10.1080/1462169X.2019.1574429
