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Title: The Psychodynamics of Concentration Camp Victims
Author: Klaus D. Hoppe, M.D.
Psychoanalyst and Director of Research at the Hacker Clinic in Beverly Hills, California. For several years he has evaluated concentration camp victims, and has written over one hundred twenty detailed psychiatric opinions in response to German Indemnification offices and courts, and has treated several survivors in extensive psychotherapy. He has published many papers in this field in English and German.
William G. Niederland, M.D.
Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry, State University of New York, Training and Supervisory Analyst, Psychoanalytic Division of the State University of New York, Chief Consulting Psychiatrist to the Altro Health and Rehabilitation Services, New York City, and author of several papers dealing with concentration camp survivors.
Paul Chodoff, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and on the faculty of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. In the past five years, he has examined more than eighty applicants for damages to their health under the Restitution Laws. He has published on this subject and is the author of a chapter dealing with it which will appear in a forthcoming supplementary volume of the American Handbook of Psychiatry.
Paul Friedman, M.D., PH.D.
Psychoanalyst, a former lecturer of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute, and an Attending Psychiatrist at Mt. Sinai and Beth Israel Hospitals in New York City. In 1946 and 1947, Dr. Friedman made surveys of the psychological conditions of the survivors of Nazi concentration camps in Europe and Cyprus. He was a member of a mission in 1949 at the invitation of the Israeli Government to organize a mental hygiene program in Israel. He has since published several articles on these subjects.
Edith Jacobson, M.D.