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This paper addresses the late psychosocial sequelae of extreme trauma and its impact on the Second Generation in Germany. The example of the short-term analysis of a Shoah survivor and his relationship to his son conducted in his home environment shows how psychic consequences of extreme traumatization and more particularly their unconscious transgen-crational transmission to the Second Generation mainly take place as part of unconscious "scenes". The concept of "scenic memory of the Shoah" goes beyond the classical type of transference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the last 50 years inpatient psychosomatic psychotherapeutic treatment in Germany has undergone a special development in which the psychoanalytical and group analytical communities were substantially involved. This development will be analyzed in a review with respect to models of the clinical application of psychoanalytical treatment principles. Particular emphasis is placed on the analysis of transference and countertransference processes in a clinical multiperson situation and the resulting necessity of group and teamwork. Only such an integrative inpatient psychotherapy concept is from a psychoanalytical perspective in a position to utilize the interactional, scene-like restaging in a multiperson relationship field and to benefit therapeutically, by which the group analytical function of the team process plays a special role. The practical aspects of two applications of the integrative model in Essen and Dortmund will be presented and the results will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

An intercultural analysis imposes particular requirements on the analytical couple. The patient of Kurdish-Turkish origin has lived in Germany since she was 6 years old. She had been exposed to complex and paradoxical influences which arose from the individual and familial conflicts generated by the migration of her family and the resulting cross-cultural differences. The neurotic compromise formation will be analyzed in its cultural context. The patient's formations of identities as attempts at a solution are contradictory within themselves, serve as resistance and are directed against change. This can be traced within the transference relationship. A path of emancipation opens if it succeeds in leaving an either-or world and to bear existing diversity. The author uses an anthropological concept from Lévi-Strauss to describe various processes of change. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper we explore the relationship between trauma and suicidal thoughts and behaviour. This exploration has a double perspective: a deeper understanding of trauma can illuminate the dynamics of suicidality; and the psychotherapeutic study of suicidal people increases our understanding of the impact of trauma. This discussion addresses three particular configurations: (a) the impact on the individual of the suicide of a close person; (b) the traumatic dimension of suicidal behaviour on the self; and (c) the impact of childhood traumatic experiences on the subsequent development of suicide. We describe the psychotherapy of a suicidal man, who had suffered many losses including that of his mother to suicide, as the basis for commentary by three discussants. The paper concludes that the approach linking trauma with suicide is a fruitful one and further study is recommended. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, the author focuses on Lotte Köhler, first European psychoanalysts who recognizes the revolutionary contributions by Austrian psychoanalysts Heinz Kohut in 1970s. She mentions that Lotte grew up in a Germany and born in 1925, vacant Freudians and without exposure to original, contemporary, or denazified psychoanalysis. She further highlights that Lotte was influenced by Kohut's thoughts and treatment of the transference.