About the Contributors

TITLE The Emotional Reactions of Psychiatrists when Confronting Survivors of Persecution

AUTHOR Klaus D. Hoppe, M.D. A psychoanalyst and Director of Research at the Hacker Clinic in Beverly Hills, California. For many years he has been involved in evaluating and treating survivors of persecution. He introduced the concepts of chronic reactive aggression and hate-addiction. Among his 15 publications in this field, are recent studies of psychosomatic reactions and disorders in survivors and findings of a close relationship between resomatization of affects and persecution.

MARTIN WANGH, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Albert Einstein College of Medicine and member of the Faculty of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and Vice President of the New York Psychoanalytic Society. He has published widely including “National Socialism and the Genocide of the Jews” and has seen patients in consultation for restitution claims.

JEAN B. ROSENBAUM, M.D. Formerly Professor of Humanities at Montieth College. In his present practice of psychoanalysis he has treated both victims of World War II as well as conducted an extensive analysis of a former Nazi. He has published numerous articles on aggression; several of which center upon the relationships between persecutors and their victims. He is currently President of the New Mexico Psychoanalytic Association.

PAUL CHODOFF, M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University and is on the Faculty of the Washington Psychoanalytic Institute. For the past 8 years he has been very much interested in the problems of the survivors of the Nazi persecution and has published a number of papers on the subject.

HENRY KRYSTAL, M.D. Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Wayne State University, and a practicing psychoanalyst. His interest in the emotional problems of survivors of Nazi persecution led to research on the “survivor syndrome” and broadening of the studies to include the aftereffects of massive ps