Psychoanalysis, Historiography, and the Nazi Camps: Accounting for Survival

by Dan Stone

​In the postwar years, Dutch survivors Eddy de Wind, Louis Micheels, and Elie A. Cohen, who went on to become practicing psychoanalysts, penned accounts of their survival of the Nazi camps. Their sober assessments contrast sharply with those by Bruno Bettelheim and Viktor Frankl, which emphasized decisiveness, 'positive thinking', and resistance, missing the fact that many Holocaust victims with those characteristics or other qualities did...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031580095
• ISBN13: 9783031580093
• Release Date: July 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 119 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 7.9"