Journal of Psychiatry

Elise Wardle

Publications

• Short Communication
  Memories of the Holocaust and Questions of Past Lives
  Author(s): Elise WardleElise Wardle
  
  The aim of this case note is to highlight areas within psychology which are, in the main, as yet unaddressed by professionals, including psychiatrists, psychotherapists and counsellors whose practice may not incorporate working within a transpersonal framework and who may be confronted by those patients whose issues do not appear to fit any current diagnostic models. The seminal literature examined relates specifically to the psychological effects of inherited memory of war trauma for second and third generation survivors of World War II. Attention is given to the implications of addressing issues as specific to the present and to holding the possibility that they originate from another life or that the memory has been 'inherited' genetically or through what Jung defined as the Collective Unconscious. The transmission of memory and possibilities of origin in connection with question.. View More»
  DOI: 10.4172/Psychiatry.1000220

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