Paul Valent

MBBS, DPM, FRANZCP
Consultant liaison psychiatrist, psychotherapist, traumatologist,
Co-founder and past president Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies,
Writer.

Resilience in child survivors of the Holocaust: toward the concept of resilience. Psychoanalytic Review; Volume 85, Number 4. pp. 517-535

Children from an early age demonstrated amazing survival attributes and adaptability. This continued as they grew up postwar. However, the concept of resilience has to be applied with care, because in each person it is admixed with vulnerability, pure luck to have survived, and a long term compound of compromises.

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Publication Author: Paul Valent Publication Date: August 1998 Categories: Child survivors of the Holocaust