ABSTRACT
Ilany Kogan's chapter lays out the emotional scenario for those children who identify deeply with their parents' damage as well as those who seem to have had their parents' images of people, events, and the world deposited forcefully within them. Powerful themes of joining with the damaged other, healing them, or assuaging the guilt for not doing so, and for surviving when they have not, come through clearly, as does the profound confusion between past and present, and inner and outer, with which such people struggle when they face present-day trauma. Profound confusion-the sense of being completely lost-is also a theme in Vera Muller-Paisner's chapter: confusion as a consequence of trauma to the sense of identity one has grown up with. Dori Laub's chapter returns to the impact of past trauma on current events, but this time in the coincidence of trauma, within the clinical setting, for patient, analyst, and supervisor.
