Leaving, Losing and Finding Home: Through the Shadow of Trauma

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ABSTRACTThe author, having grown up in the shadow of the Holocaust, formed a sense of home around the idea that the past was a broken and vanished continent. In this article, the author explores the challenges of leaving home, the trauma of losing home, and the reparation of finding home across the intergenerational trauma and loss.KEYWORDS: HomeHolocausttraumaparentinglossmourningseparationintergenerational repair Disclosure statementNo potential conflict of interest was reported by the author.Notes1 When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychoanalytic Stories from Life, with Kerry Malawista and Linda Kanefield (Columbia University Press, 2022).Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns of Modern Love, Loss and Longing (Routledge, 2018).The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby, with Kerry Malawista (Columbia University Press, 2013).Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories, with Kerry Malawista and Catherine Anderson (Columbia University Press, 2011).Additional informationNotes on contributorsAnne J. AdelmanAnne J. Adelman, Ph.D., is a clinical psychologist and Supervising and Training analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis, and a recipient of that institute’s award for excellence in teaching in 2019. She is also a Teaching Analyst at the Contemporary Freudian Society. She has published several articles and is the coauthor and editor of four books.Footnote11 When The Garden Isn’t Eden: More Psychoanalytic Stories from Life, with Kerry Malawista and Linda Kanefield (Columbia University Press, 2022).Psychoanalytic Reflections on Parenting Teens and Young Adults: Changing Patterns of Modern Love, Loss and Longing (Routledge, 2018).The Therapist in Mourning: From the Faraway Nearby, with Kerry Malawista (Columbia University Press, 2013).Wearing my Tutu to Analysis and Other Stories, with Kerry Malawista and Catherine Anderson (Columbia University Press, 2011). As Co-Editor of JAPA Review of Books, she launched a feature column called “Why I Write,” inviting analysts to reflect on the experience of writing. She is a cochair of the New Directions in Writing Program and maintains a private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland.