INTERGENERATIONAL TRANSMISSION - THE INDIVIDUATION PROCESS AND THE CAPACITY FOR INTIMACY OF ADULT CHILDREN OF HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

This article deals with the intergenerational processes of adult child ren of Holocaust survivors. By exploring their level of individuation from the parental family and their capacity for intimacy with spouses, the research findings reveal that: Adult children of survivors are em otionally more interconnected to their parents than are their counterp arts (using the MIS). Adult children of survivors have a lower intimac y capacity with their spouses in comparison with the control group. Th ese findings are explained from an intergenerational perspective regar ding a post-traumatic population.