Medical and Psychological Effects of Concentration Camps on Holocaust
Survivors
by Robert Krell & Marc I. Sherman.
Transaction Publishers, 1997
In order to acquaint users of this bibliography with the topic, two introductory
articles are offered. The first is titled "Survivors and Their Families" and
deals with the impact of the Holocaust on individuals. The second, "Psychiatry
and the Holocaust," examines the general impact of the Holocaust
on the field of psychiatry. Robert Krell writes that until now the psychiatric
literature has reflected critically on the survivor due to preconceived
notions held by many mental health professionals. For many years, the
exploration of victims' psychopathology obscured the remarkable adaptations
made by some survivors and possible approaches to treatment were entirely
absent from mainstream psychiatric textbooks such as the Comprehensive
Textbook of Psychiatry throughout the 1960s and 1970s.