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Trauma science pioneer Dr. Henry
Krystal honored for his work.
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D
r. Henry Krystal was hon-
ored by the Michigan
Psychoanalytic Society April
14 in recognition of his major contri-
butions to the psychoanalytic litera-
ture and knowledge of trauma and its
treatment.
He is a Holocaust survivor whose
life's history embodies what his writ-
ings have emphasized — that even
after terrible trauma, healing and inte-
gration may be possible.
Krystal was born in 1925 in
Sosnowiec, Poland. In the months fol-
lowing the 1939 invasion of Poland
by Nazi Germany, his parents and his
brother, Samuel, a medical student,
were murdered by the Nazis. Krystal
had been living in the Sosnowiec
Ghetto with his mother and later was
taken to work in the labor camp of
Starochowice.
From the Starochowice labor camp,
he was taken to the infamous death
camp, Auschwitz-Birkenau, at age 14.
After surviving the infamous selection
there, he was tattooed and became
a slave laborer for the Nazis. He was
taken to Buchenwald, and later was on
a death march to Sachsenhausen. As
the Germans were retreating, he was
taken on another death march from
which he was eventually liberated.
After the Holocaust, Krystal was in a
Displaced Persons Camp in Frankfurt,
Germany. There, he enrolled in an
accelerated high school program
and entered medical school in
Frankfurt. He had an aunt in Detroit
who sponsored his move to America.
— Dr. Henry Krystal
Krystal graduated from Wayne State
University's medical school and spe-
cialized in psychiatry. In 1958, he was
were experiencing. They recognized
accepted for training by the Michigan
the importance of the survivors' feel-
Psychoanalytic Institute.
ings of depression and anxiety, their
After the war, the German govern-
nightmares, sleep disorders and dif-
ment sought to evaluate Holocaust
ficulties (for some) in interpersonal
survivors with the intent of providing
relationships that they suffered as a
them with compensation for their
result of their overwhelming losses
imprisonment. Incredibly, the German and victimization. After testimonies
government at that time was compen-
in German courts, the German gov-
sating Jewish victims only for their
ernment agreed that there was a sig-
physical ailments and not for their
nificant emotional component to the
emotional suffering.
survivors' losses and suffering that
needed to be treated and qualified for
Understanding Survivors
compensation.
Krystal and his colleagues became
The face of psychology, psychia-
pioneers and advocates for under-
try and psychoanalysis was forever
standing and studying the significance changed as a result of the pioneering
of the emotional trauma the survivors
work of Krystal and his colleagues.
"Love is the most
healing and
strengthening
force within a
person. In spite of
what happened
to me during the
Holocaust, I tried
to keep my ideals,
positive constructive
goals and loving
feelings foremost in
my mind. "
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