“Crimes Against Humanity” and the Societal Context of Trauma: Discussion of “A Sense of ‘Being Human’ and Twinship Experience” by Koichi Togashi

Abstract

Expanding on Togashi’s celebration of Kohut’s shift in perspective, this discussion examines the ways in which embracing a “psychology of being human” furthers our ability to understand how the intergenerational effects of societal cataclysms, such as those associated with the Holocaust, slavery, and combat, form the contexts of many therapeutic relationships.