ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the unconscious processes that take place in families and couples who experienced loss from terror attacks. Over the years Israel has been exposed to different kinds of terror attacks that target civilian children and adults, in the most unexpected circumstances during everyday life. The therapeutic climate was constantly changing because of the burst of new centres of aggression which provoked life-threatening crises in the family. Therapists need to do more work on identfying the different characteristics of families in extreme trauma and providing access to skilled therapy. The psychoanalytic view on trauma holds that the impact of traumatic events upon the mind can be treated only through achieving a deeper knowledge of the particular meaning of those events for that individual, integrating it into the individual's conscious existence. Severely traumatic events stir up the unresolved pains and conflicts of childhood.
