title: Psycho-educative group psychotherapy for Jewish child-survivors of the Holocaust and non-Jewish child-survivors of Japanese concentration camps.
abstract: The authors describe the application of a form of group psychotherapy for middle aged patients with a past history of being child-survivors of the Second World War. In a group of Jewish survivors, the group members initially expressed anger at the perpetrators, while a group of Dutch-Indonesian survivors of Japanese concentration camps were less able to do so. Therapy was helpful in working through these and other stages of progression until the group members were able to look at their own present lives and think of their futures. Overall results of the group psychotherapy are presented. Despite the patients' age and past traumatic experiences, psycho-educative group psychotherapy was helpful for both groups.
authors.affiliation: Sinai Center, Amersfoort, Holland.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lansen
authors.forename: J P
authors.initials: JP
authors.lastname: Cels
mesh_terms: D003209:Concentration Camps; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000628:therapy; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia / Q000208:ethnology; D007564:Japan; D007585:Jews / Q000523:psychology; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009426:Netherlands; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods; D013313:Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic / Q000628:therapy*; D014857:Warfare