Publication at Faculty of Arts |
2012
Abstract
In terms of research, the hardships and feelings of the family members of political prisoners in communist Czechoslovakia have often been neglected or overshadowed by the fate of the direct victim of the regime, whether the person in question was sentenced to death, to a lengthy spell in prison or to a labour camp. For this reason, Jana Roubíčková - Švehlová's book, based on her Ph.D. dissertation defended in 2001 in Washington DC, deserves attention.
Drawing on her own real life experience and applying the methodology of her own profession as a psychologist, she attempts to analyze the traumas suffered by daughters of Czechoslovak political prisoners in the early 1950s from a psychological point of view.