Albert D. Biderman, Ph.D., Washington, D.C., is Senior Research Associate, Bureau of Social Science Research, Inc., Washington, D.C. He explored uses of crime statistics as social indicators in a recent monograph on Social Indicators and Goals (1966). His broader interest in the regulation of behavior by social codes is reflected in the books March to Calumny: American Prisoners in the Korean W...

Introduct ion Investigations of former KZ-prisoners report of extensive physical and psychological sequences. Some studies have focused on the somatic consequences of hunger dvstrophy (Herman and Thygcsen 1954, Thygcsen et al 1970) and the KZ-syndrome is seen as an organic damage also affecting the brain (Nielsen 1986). Others (e.g. Chodoft 1982) stress that the massive emotional and physical t...

The paper presents the post-war history of post-traumatic research conducted at the Department of Psychiatry of the Jagiellonian University and the analysis of the main research approaches and selected publications. The time after World War II passed in Poland in two directions: coping with the finished war trauma and simultaneously the experience of communist persecution trauma. First scientif...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The aversive impact of combat and parents' combat-induced posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on young children has been examined in a few studies. However, the long-term toll of war captivity on secondary traumatization (ST) and the parental bonding of adult children remain unknown. This study examined ST symptoms and parental bonding among adult children of former p...

War captivity is one of the most severe human-inflicted traumatic experiences with wide and substantial long-term negative effects. However, only one retrospective study examined suicidal ideation (SI) among ex-prisoners of war (ex-POWs). This study aimed to prospectively assess SI among ex-POWs and its associations with posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms over a 17-year period. Two g...