The Yale Videotestimony Study examines testimonies of Shoah survivors who were hospitalized for decades in psychiatric clinics in Israel. In the first phase, Dori Laub and others conducted interviews with 26 of these patients, which were recorded and transcribed as video testimonies. Most of them are now archived in the Fortunoff Video Archive and can be viewed for research purposes. Selected video testimonies from this sample were examined in more detail at the IPU using the Scenic Narrative Microanalysis method. Beneath the manifest surface of the testimony, scenic subtexts were revealed that depict the inner-psychic and intersubjective processing.
Personal testimony is not a date, but a step; it not only leads to insight, but also triggers further steps. In the best case, it leads people to recognize how they buy their social development through unconsciousness, through the exclusion of history and its witnesses from their own present consciousness (Hamburger 2013b).
Original language: English
Prof. Dori Laub, MD (Yale School of Medicine)
Prof. Dr. Marianne Leuzinger-Bohleber (Sigmund-Freud-Institut Frankfurt/M.)
Rater/Moderatoren:
Prof. Dr. Tamara Fischmann (Sigmund-Freud-Institut Frankfurt/M./IPU Berlin)
Dr. Hello Goldfein
Dr. Kurt Grünberg
Dr. Salek Kutschinski
Dr. Friedrich Markert
Dr. Lillian Otscheret-Tschebiner
Dr. Naomi Silberner-Becker