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Auschwitz Survivors. Clinical Psychiatric Studies
The publication of the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum 'Auschwitz Survivors. Clinical Psychiatric Studies' is available in the Museum's on-line bookshop. This anthology constitutes a selection from over four hundred papers written by staff from the Academy of Medicine in Cracow, dealing with the Nazi-German Occupation and former Polish political prisoners of concentration camps.
Most of the Cracow research papers have been published in 'Przegląd Lekarski - Oświecim' (Medical Review - Auschwitz), an academic publication of the Towarzystwo Lekarskie Krakowskie (Cracow Medical Society).
Altogether, 31 volumes of 'Przegląd Lekarski - Oświęcim' were published, in the years 1961-1991.
This selection of research papers by Cracow psychiatrists, presented in a dynamic and trans-generational way and published in the present book, should make the English-speaking reader better acquainted with the main current of war pathology and the pathology of Nazi concentration camps.
Titles of selected articles
- Psychological Reactions to Psychosomatic Stress in 100 Former Prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp (Aleksander Teutsch),
- Post-camp Personality Alterations in Former Prisoners of the Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp (Roman Leśniak),
- The Rhythm of Death in the Concentration Camp (Zdzisław Jan Ryn),
- The So-called 'KZ-Syndrome' - An Attempt at a Synthesis (Antoni Kępiński),
- Escapes from Concentration Camps: A Psychiatric-psychological Analysis (Roman Leśniak, Elżbieta Leśniak),
- Concentration Camp Survivors and War Disability Benefits (Adam Szymusik).
