COUNTERTRANSFERENCE AND LIFE-AND-DEATH ISSUES IN GROUP-PSYCHOTHERAPY WITH CHILD HOLOCAUST SURVIVORS

Though their death sentence was lifted almost sixty years ago, child s urvivors of the Holocaust are often still unsure whether they should h ave died with their parents. Group psychotherapy, as described in this paper, highlighted these conflicts in the group process and in the co therapists' countertransference. Once these were fully acknowledged th e group could tolerate a termination process.