Beyond Invisible Walls: The Psychological Legacy of Soviet Trauma, East European Therapists and Their Patients

When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Westerners watched those who had survived the era of Soviet trauma emerge into what we hoped would be the exhilarating light of freedom. What we have witnessed, however, is a slow and painful process of progression and regression: invisible walls that block the progress we had hoped for.

Author: Jacob D. Lindy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 03/19/2014
Pages: 270
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d
ISBN: 9781138011953

About the Author
Jacob D. Lindy, MD, is Training and Supervising Analyst and past Director of the Cincinnati Psychoanalytic Institute in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is also co-director of the University of Cincinnati Traumatic Stress Study Center and guest teacher at institutes in Moscow and St. Petersburg, Russia. Robert Jay Lifton, MD, is a leader in the study of trauma and history in the twentieth century and the author of numerous books on the psychological dimension of historical events. He is in the Department of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.