Marcus P, Rosenberg A
Holocaust Genocide Stud. 1988;3(4):413-30. doi: 10.1093/hgs/3.4.413.
The survivor's religious experiences, both during and after the Holocaust have been underexplored in the psychological literature. This essay concerns itself with the survivor's religious realm as it affects the psychotherapeutic process. it also provides a conceptual framework for helping the therapist understand the significance of religion in the survivor's life. When a survivor's religious framework, his symbolic world, can no longer "make sense" of his life, when he cannot recognize his own identity, his psychological world begins to crumble: Clinical symptoms are thus an attempt to preserve self-cohesion, self-continuity and self-esteem amidst a tottering symbolic world. Treatment should focus on helping the survivor rebuild or create new viable human meaning formations that support self-affirmation.
大屠杀期间及之后幸存者的宗教经历在心理学文献中一直未得到充分探讨。本文关注幸存者的宗教领域，因为它会影响心理治疗过程。它还提供了一个概念框架，以帮助治疗师理解宗教在幸存者生活中的意义。当幸存者的宗教框架，即他的象征世界，不再能“理解”他的生活，当他无法认清自己的身份时，他的心理世界就开始崩塌：临床症状因此是在摇摇欲坠的象征世界中维持自我凝聚、自我延续和自尊的一种尝试。治疗应侧重于帮助幸存者重建或创造新的可行的人类意义结构，以支持自我肯定。
