DEMANDINGNESS AND BELLIGERENCE IN HOSPITALIZED DEPRESSED HOLOCAUST CONCENTRATION-CAMP SURVIVORS AS PERCEIVED BY THE STAFF

Twelve staff members, blind to the hypotheses, rated depressed, hospit alized concentration camp survivors, 40 years after their liberation, as more demanding, belligerent and irritating in their behavior toward s staff in comparison with their matched counterparts. Survivors' beha vior was discussed in terms of reenactment of traumatic scenes from th eir past. Staff shows consistent although not significant tendencies t o dislike the survivors. Theoretical and clinical implications were dr awn.