title: Survival and recovery: psychoanalytic reflections.
abstract: This paper offers a critical review of the psychoanalytic literature on the Holocaust. In keeping with its emphasis on recovery, it describes the mechanisms involved in psychological survival under extreme conditions. It is postulated that these mechanisms constituted a link in the psychic continuity between the survivors' pre-Holocaust psychological organization and their adaptations to a new life.
authors.affiliation: Consolidated Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ornstein
mesh_terms: D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D003289:Convalescence; D005260:Female; D017767:Holocaust / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011573:Psychoanalytic Interpretation; D013534:Survival / Q000523:psychology*