title: Father and daughter: historical identification, present attachments and the question of passionate involvement.
abstract: An extended case description is used to illustrate and explore the notion that some children can identify with parental historical experiences as a defense against oedipal passions and mature involvement. Emphasis is placed on the nature and sequelae of a father-daughter relationship, as a function of the father's Holocaust experiences where he passed as a Christian and his post Holocaust experiences with a daughter born to him after the war. The value of adding analytic group therapy to individual analytic work is also discussed in terms of its significance as a potential activator of otherwise latent material that may lay dormant in the dyadic setting.
authors.affiliation: ABRiver@aol.com
authors.forename: Albert J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Brok
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D003674:Defense Mechanisms; D004325:Dreams / Q000523:psychology; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D017767:Holocaust / Q000523:psychology; D006801:Humans; D007062:Identification, Psychological; D008016:Life Change Events; D008149:Love; D008297:Male; D009769:Object Attachment; D009813:Oedipus Complex; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy / Q000379:methods; D011615:Psychotherapy, Group / Q000379:methods; D020018:Sexual Dysfunctions, Psychological / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy