Language:
English
Year of publication:
2014
Titel der Quelle:
Catastrophes
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2014) 128-155
Keywords:
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Psychological aspects
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Influence
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Reparations
;
Holocaust survivors
;
Antisemitism History 1945-
;
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Abstract:
Notes that the introduction of the diagnostic category of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) into psychiatric theory and practice in the 1980s was preceded by a struggle for financial compensation for mental health damages in the 1950s-60s in West Germany, led by Jewish survivors of the Holocaust. This struggle took place in the post-Nazi climate of the FRG and in an atmosphere of anti-survivor resentment, in which many German physicians rejected survivors’ claims outright. The medical and public controversy on the validity of survivors’ claims concerning the mental trauma they suffered led to the widespread antisemitic accusation that their claims were false and that Jews were "once more dancing around the ’golden calf’".
Note:
Appeared also in "Lessons and Legacies" XII (2017) 31-63.
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