Renewal of Life Healing from the Holocaust

The author, a world-renowned psychoanalyst, was rescued from Nazi-occupied France as a child and brought to the United States, where he became an authority on violence in children.

Poem by Primo Levi

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Chapter 1 - Incominciamo

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Getting Into What Happened

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Part I - What Happened to My World

Chapter 2 - The Germans Attack Belgium...Our Exodus

10 May 1940

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In Chaos We Leave Bruxelles

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Summer 1940, In a French Village

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Chapter 3 - The Camps

The Round-Up

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Récébédou: Our First Concentration Camp

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Rivesaltes: The Shame of Vichy-France Deepens

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In Rivesaltes, Life Went On

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The Move to Rivesaltes' Jewish Ghetto

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The Question of Escaping from Rivesaltes

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Escape from Rivesaltes

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The Train to Marseille

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Chapter 4 - Safety - The OSE Homes

Le Bureau d'Oeuvre de Secours aux Enfants (OSE), Marseille

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Boulouris: La Feuille

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St.Raphael: La Villa Mariana

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Chapter 5 - Going to America

Our Brief Sojourn in Marseille

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Marseille to Casablanca

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Across the Atlantic-Casablanca to New York

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Arriving in America

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Chapter 6 - The Start of My New Life

Pittsburgh, America

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Entry into Our "New World"

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Part II - Reflections - 60 Years Later

Chapter 7 - Trauma in the Lives of Children

"La Condition Humaine"

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Pain Is Part of Everyday Life

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Extremes of Psychic Pain

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Chapter 8 - Looking Back

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May 1 1941, 12 Years Old, I Escaped from Rivesaltes

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Early May 1942, Came to America on Convoy #3-L' OSE Saved Many of Us

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August 14, 1942, My Mother Was Sent to Auschwitz

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Regarding the History of Foreign Jews in Vichy-France

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Chapter 9 - In the Aftermath

On My Journey in Israel

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My Post-Holocaust Travels in Germany (Munich, Berlin)

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Retracing Past Travels (Return to Rivesaltes - Leaving Rivesaltes Behind)

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On Visiting Drancy

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Chapter 10 - Of Burdens That Follow from What Befell Jews in Europe of That Day

Problems for my family

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My Problem with God and with Liturgy

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Why Has It Taken Me so Long to Write What Happened to Us

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The Doctor As Burden to His Patients

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My Resistance to Writing My Witness Report

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Guilt, Shame

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What Was So Awful in What Happened?

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On Things I Should Do, I Have Not Done (Auschwitz, Lodz, My Father and My Brother, Joining Holocaust Survivor Groups)

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Part III - "Ayeika?"

Chapter 11 - Where Am I?

How Have I Come to Where I Am?

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Studies in Early Childhood Development Open Avenues to Prevention of Social Ills

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Chapter 12 - The Many Pitfalls and Opportunities in Child Rearing to Optimize Our Children's Development

Parents As Students

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Toward the Prevention of Emotional Disorders in Children via Parenting Education: Preparing Children-Preparing Future Parents

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Chapter 13 - Aggression

How It Develops and Is Shaped in Each of Us

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The Crucial Aggression Equation: Excessive Unpleasure - Hostile Destructiveness (Examples of Children)

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Young Children's Coping with Their Emerging Hostility and Hate

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Defenses set up to Cope with Hostile Destructiveness toward Primary Caregivers

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Toward the Prevention of Violence and Malignant Prejudice

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Child Rearing and the Development of Hate and Violence

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The Holocaust What We Experienced

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For Each of Us: Our State of Self and of One's Relationships When It Happened

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Chapter 14 - The Development of Prejudice - Benign and Malignant

How Do We Come to Be Prejudiced?

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Normal Psychological Developments Make Each of Us Prejudiced

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How the Child's Own Identity and Love Relationships Get Formed

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The Obligatory Nature of Forging one's Identity and Enduring Relationships

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The Role of Identification in Forming One's Identity

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Crucial Developmental Factors that Progressively Specify Those We Love as Unique, Distinguishable from All Others

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Stranger Anxiety and the Roots of Xenophobia

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Our Potential for Becoming Carriers of Malignant Prejudice

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What is the Child to Do When He Rages or Hates his Own Mother or/and Father?

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Trauma and the Predisposition to Malignant Prejudice

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Pause: August 14, 2003

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Chapter 15 - I Insist, We Can Act to Reduce Malignant Prejudice and Violence

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Reaching Out - Joining Interdisciplinary Efforts

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We Have to Find Ways to Live Together-With Our Differences

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