internalisation of Nazism and its effects on German psychoanalysts and their patients

For a long time it was something of a taboo to include the crimes of the Nazi era in the immediate clinical and training work within psychoanalysis in Germany. This article looks at the process of work done within the study of psychoanalysis to make practitioners more alert to possible patient trauma, shame and guilt and to feel confident to assist patients affected by The Holocaust, either first or later generations.