title: Disremembering the holocaust.
abstract: The essay describes an elderly Holocaust survivor, who re-experiences the horrors of the Holocaust through his senile hallucinations. Although he is demented, telling and re-telling the story to a therapist helps him regain a sense of control and feel less frightened. He is finally able to revise the nightmarish story into a narrative that enables him to find strength and meaning.
authors.affiliation: Department of Family Medicine, Hebrew University, Hadassah School of Medicine, Jerusalem, Israel. rkannai@gmail.com
authors.forename: Ruth
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kannai
mesh_terms: D003704:Dementia / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy; D017767:Holocaust / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D062525:Narrative Therapy; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D017741:Survivors / Q000523:psychology*