Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients by Jacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton ISBN 9781583913185, 1583913181 instant download

Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients by Jacob D. Lindy, Robert Jay Lifton ISBN 9781583913185, 1583913181 instant download

In Beyond Invisible Walls, East European therapists, themselves, draw a compelling picture of the waves of trauma that their people endured, the institutions of trauma that remained well after Stalin's era, and their impact on survivors and their families. They describe the psychological remnants of those years: walls that confine people by unconsciously preserving old adaptations to political terror, walls that divide one part of the mind from another, and walls that rise between one generation and the next. These therapists’ stories allow us a striking glimpse into how patients’ trauma evokes the therapists’ own wounds; how both speaker and empathic listener find their way to a healing process, how the two begin to dismantle these invisible walls.

Editors Jacob D. Lindy and Robert Jay Lifton have assembled compelling cases from Hungary, East Germany, Romania, Russia, Croatia, and Armenia and added their own commentary, elucidating the interaction between multigenerational trauma, culture, and history. Historical sketches by eminent scholars provide further perspective on these times and events. In the detailed clinical discussions and poignant case studies, clinicians will find unique perspectives and understanding applicable to their work with anyone who has suffered under political repression. Rich with personal voices, Beyond Invisible Walls is a book into whose pages clinicians and lay readers alike will be drawn.