Stella Maria Frei: Healing Holocaust Survivors, Gebunden

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This book investigates the strategies of psychological rehabilitation of two major international organizations active in Displaced Persons Camps, from 1944 to 1948: The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA), and the Jewish Joint Distribution Committee (JDC). It explores on which assumptions, and modes of thought the psychological rehabilitation rested, and what kind of strategies were suggested and implemented in Europe's Displaced Persons Camps. Exploring the psychological rehabilitation of Displaced Persons demonstrates how mental health, psychosocial expertise, citizenship, politics, and the international order entangled and intersected in the field of refugeehood in the postwar years. This book also uncovers to what extent the psychologists designed their strategies and practices with an eye toward different visions of the reconstruction of Europe and the future whereabouts of the DPs: In the field of Displaced Persons, psychological expertise was instrumentalized to shape individuals with the mentality that fitted the political and regulatory objectives of the two international organizations, UNRRA and JDC. This is the first study that takes an in-depth look at the psychosocial community's earliest instance of interest and engagement in the psychic constitution of Holocaust survivors specifically, and of a refugee population in general in a humanitarian setting.