Moser T
Psyche (Stuttg). 1992 May;46(5):389-405.
The book The Inability to Mourn by Alexander and Margarete Mitscherlich appeared in 1967 and claimed to provide a diagnosis of the era in which it was written. Superficially at least, its public impact was considerable. Rereading the work 25 years later, Tilmann Moser has profound misgivings as to the accuracy of the Mitscherlichs' diagnosis. He characterises the authors' approach as a mixture of analytic-cum-therapeutic, political and pedagogical attitudes and suggests that this was largely inappropriate to the task of identifying the actual psychic condition of the "generation of culprits" and of encouraging self-recognition and a disposition for change. Moser posits the "tragic paradox" that the people implicated in this crime require empathy if they are to genuinely break with the past.
亚历山大和玛格丽特·米歇利希所著的《无法哀伤》一书于1967年出版，宣称对其成书时代作出了诊断。至少从表面上看，它在公众中产生了相当大的影响。25年后重新阅读这部作品时，蒂尔曼·莫泽对米歇利希夫妇诊断的准确性深感疑虑。他将作者的方法描述为分析兼治疗、政治和教学态度的混合，并认为这在很大程度上不适用于识别“有罪一代”的实际心理状况以及鼓励自我认知和改变倾向的任务。莫泽提出了“悲剧性悖论”，即牵涉到这一罪行的人若要真正与过去决裂，就需要同理心。
