[Late psychological problems after concentration camp incarceration].

Abstract

After the Second World War most studies showed that concentration camp prisoners suffered from serious somatic and psychological damage. This survey documents that Norwegian ex-prisoners from concentration camps were examined and diagnosed, and received adequate somatic therapy; moreover that the majority also attained an acceptable, financially--more or less--secure existence. But eventually it could be observed that, apart from a few who received individual psychotherapy, too little was done to help ex-prisoners with their psychological problems.