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H Peskin

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PubMed1995

The convergence of the California Q-set and the California Psychological Inventory: gender as a critical variable.

Clinician-report California Q-set and self-report California Psychological Inventory data were compared to explore convergence and divergence between these two modes of personality assessment. Based on responses from a sample of 215 approximately 50-year-old men and women, the self-report California Psychological Inventory data were converted to California Q-set item values using previously determined redundancy analysis formulae. These data were then correlated with composite clinicians' ratings, using the same California Q-set items. Substantial convergence was found for both genders on four of six derived components--Empowerment, Intellectuality, Nonconformity, and Outgoingness. Two additional components--Psychological Health and Bodily Concern--showed convergence for women only. We argue analysis of item content and scores must be done for each gender separately.

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PubMed1995

[The second Holocaust: life is threatening].

According to the author's observations, the "second holocaust" is a phenomenon encountered both in the first and the second generation. This dramatic concept seeks to convey the fact that the devastations of the actual holocaust are re-enacted and unconsciously repeated by the survivors and their children in terms not only of the content of the trauma but also of its style. Referring to a number of potted case histories, the authors describe how inevitable and absolute the shadow of destruction is felt to be by the victims and how the contrive to survive under this shadow. From a therapeutic viewpoint it appears helpful to encounter the onset and the effects of this "second holocaust" by activating the life side of the life-death dichotomy as a counter against the compulsive urge for repetition. Life, through felt itself to be permanently at risk, must be made to function as the motor for the negation of death.

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PubMed1981

Observations on the First International Conference on Children of Holocaust Survivors.

This first large-scale gathering of children of Holocaust survivors revealed-more from the unanticipated group process of the conference than from its official proceedings-that the second generation seeks a collective identity subordinate neither to the older generation of parents nor of mental-health authorities. Vital moments of tension and reconciliation at the conference between the children's self-help movement (with a sizable membership of young mental-health professionals) and distinguished mental-health experts indicated the legitimacy of intergenerational encounter and the place that it will likely be accorded in future meetings.

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