Psychological witnessing of my mother's Holocaust testimony

The author has struggled to face the impact that the trauma suffered by his family in the Holocaust has had on him. He writes about 'relational trauma' and his efforts to understand his relationship with his mother through her video testimony. He adapted techniques used in mother-infant studies to examine his facial and non-verbal responses. As a psychiatrist interested in making contact with the traumas of his patients, he here focuses on the experience of fragmentation and dissociation and what he calls 'reparative moments ' when in the presence of trauma.