Roger Frie - History Flows Through Us: Germany, the Holocaust and the Promise of Empathy

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Joseph D. Lichtenberg

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History Flows through Us

Germany, the Holocaust, and the Importance of Empathy

Edited by Roger Frie

Contents

Roger Frie

Alon Confino

Dorothee Wierling

Donna M. Orange

Alexandra Garbarini

Jrg Bose

Robert Prince

M. Gerard Fromm

Emily Kuriloff

Ute Daniel

Geoffrey Cocks

Roger Frie

Jrg Bose, MD, is Director Emeritus, Training and Supervising Analyst and a faculty member of the William Alanson White Institute of Psychiatry, Psychoanalysis and Psychology in New York. He is a Clinical Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Columbia University and has taught, lectured, and published on issues of self and narcissism, trauma, shame, depression, and the relationship between psychoanalysis and the arts. He is an avid pastel painter of landscapes and maintains a private practice in Manhattan.

Geoffrey Cocks is Professor Emeritus of History at Albion College. His areas of expertise include modern Germany, the Second World War, psychohistory, psychoanalysis, cinema, and the history of psychotherapy, health, and illness. He is editor of The Curve of Life: Correspondence of Heinz Kohut, 19231981 (1994) and the author of Psychotherapy in the Third Reich: The Gring Institute (1985, 1997), The Wolf at the Door: Stanley Kubrick, History, and the Holocaust (2004), The State of Health: Illness in Nazi Germany (2012), and Hors de Combat: Mobilization and Immobilization in Total War, in The Cambridge History of the Second World War