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Through narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust
survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in
Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and
Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative examines strategies of
self-preservation of young people exposed to violence and
persecution at different ages and life stages. Through the lens of
studying resilience in child development, this book describes the
striking diversity of holocaust-era experiences and traces the arc
of a remarkable global diaspora. Birnbaum argues that stories from
the past can enhance understanding of the internal lives of today's
young refugees and survivors of violent conflict. Exploring the
socio-politics of narrative and memory, this book considers the
ways that children of holocaust survivors may honor the past while
also allowing a new generation to engage family history in a
conversation with contemporary concerns.
Through narrative analysis of the memoirs of six holocaust
survivors from a single extended family, Trauma and Resilience in
Holocaust Memoir: Strategies of Self-Preservation and
Inter-Generational Encounter with Narrative examines strategies of
self-preservation of young people exposed to violence and
persecution at different ages and life stages. Through the lens of
studying resilience in child development, this book describes the
striking diversity of holocaust-era experiences and traces the arc
of a remarkable global diaspora. Birnbaum argues that stories from
the past can enhance understanding of the internal lives of today's
young refugees and survivors of violent conflict. Exploring the
socio-politics of narrative and memory, this book considers the
ways that children of holocaust survivors may honor the past while
also allowing a new generation to engage family history in a
conversation with contemporary concerns.
Awarded first place in the 2017 AJN Book of the Year Awards in
Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing. This book introduces an
innovative technique for therapeutic communication in mental health
nursing, expanding the toolkit for nurses seeking to engage
challenging patients who have not responded to more conventional
therapeutic methods. Linking nursing communication to current
research on metaphor and figuration, it is illustrated with
accessible clinical examples. Metaphor is a key component of
talk-based psychotherapies. But many of the patients whom nurses
encounter in the inpatient setting are not good candidates for
talk-based approaches, at least initially, because they are
violent, withdrawn, highly regressed, or otherwise lacking a
vocabulary to convey thoughts and feelings. This book offers
specific clinical examples of an approach called the "gestural
bridge." This is a method for structuring games and physical
activities which connect metaphorically to a patient's personal
themes, activating narrative and observational agency and enabling
an exchange of meaning to begin at a time when conventional
language is not available. Rooted in what nursing theorists have
called the "embodied" or "aesthetic" way of knowing, this approach
is both specific and easily grasped. Drawing from contemporary work
in literary theory, semiotics, metaphor theory, cognitive science,
philosophy, linguistics, psychoanalysis, and the arts, Therapeutic
Communication in Mental Health Nursing is important reading for
advanced-level practitioners, students, and researchers interested
in communication and relationship-building in nursing.
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