ABSTRACT
Ilany Kogan is a training analyst at the Israel Psychoanalytic Society. She is one of the founders of Generatia, the Psychotherapy Centre for the Child and Adolescent in Bucharest, Romania. She worked as the supervisor of an IPA study group in Istanbul, Turkey. Dr Kogan decided that she couldn’t work with this man, and referred him to a colleague. It looks like he was trying to draw her into an enactment of some sort. The first patient in Dr Kogan’s account raises a nightmare that’s familiar to therapists. Working with survivors of the Holocaust is much different than working with their children. Oversimplifying, the trauma in the camps was physically real, broadly impersonal, spirit annihilating, while for the survivor’s children it is primarily psychological, the consequence of living with traumatised parents, which is a trauma of its own kind.
