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Continuing Professional Education Test
Chapter VI ("Us and Them") from The Survivor: An Anatomy of Life in the Death Camps by Terrence Des Pres
Please note: The aim of the C.E. exam is not to demonstrate mastery of the material but only to demonstrate "attendance" i.e. that the applicant for C.E..credits has read the material and is entitled to be awarded credits.
Please give the best true or false answer to the following based on the text of the Introduction, Article and Commentary.
Test Questions
1. Des Pres' goal was to examine the psychological price survivors pay to remain alive.
2. Des Pres was trained in the British School of Psychoanalysis.
3. According to Laub and Bergman, psychoanalytic theory has accommodated to massive trauma.
4. Survivors demand we suspend our normal practice.
5. Des Pres agrees with Bettleheim's formulations regarding regression and childlike behavior in the concentration camps.
6. The experience of the survivor can be symbolized.
7. The experience of the survivor can be interpreted.
8. Before The Survivor, psychoanalytic theory limited critical psychic experiences to the formative years.
9. One implication of The Survivor is that powerful experiences impact the personality at any age.
10. The trauma of witnessing can be blunted by generating myths.
11. Psychoanalyst, confronted by trauma, must confront their own vulnerability.
12. During their incarceration, concentration camp inmates were incapable of morally intelligent behavior.
13. Des Pres identifies as false some common beliefs about survivors.
14. Concentration camp inmates were incapable of social bonding.
15. Dependence on Nazi guards resulted in identification with the aggressor.
16. Des Pres believes that psychoanalytic misunderstanding derives from a theory that is about humanity in a civilized state.
17. Bettleheim's argument for "autonomy" is a defense of human dignity.
18. Des Pres agrees with Bettleheim's theory of autonomy in the death camps.
19. Attempts to interpret the survivors' experience have done more harm than good.
20. There is a fundamental difference between psychoanalytic meaning and the meaning of a survivors' actions.
21. For Des Pres, the survivor is an emblem.
Evaluation of the Course:
1. The introduction to the paper was clear.
Yes ___ No ___
2. Boulanger's commentary contributed to an understanding of Des Pres'
influence in psychoanalysis.
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3. Boulanger's presentation was easy to follow.
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4. The stated objectives were met.
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