Table of Contents

Foreword -- Introduction -- Interviewing Child Survivors -- First contacts -- Children's experiences of war in a psychoanalytic perspective -- Child survivors and childbearing -- What Is Being Communicated? -- Analysing life histories about trauma -- Children in the Holocaust -- Rwanda genocide, 1994 -- How Are Memories Being Recalled? -- Two boys–one event: how memories are recalled in interviews about massive trauma -- From Conceptual Models to a Theory -- The “affect propeller” as an analytic tool for trauma-related affects -- Trauma linking and generational linking: applications of the “affect propeller” -- Concluding remarks -- Appendix A -- Appendix B

About the Author

Suzanne Kaplanis a practicing child and training psychoanalyst. Researcher at The Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University, Sweden. Publications include 'Children in Genocide - Extreme traumatization and affect regulation' (2008). Recipient of the Hayman Prize for published work pertaining to traumatized children and adults in both 2001 and 2007.