List of Tables -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. The Past in the Present: An Introduction to Trauma (Re-)Emerging in Old Age -- Pt. 1. Starting from Trauma -- 2. Post-Traumatic Re-Experiencing in Old Age: Working Through or Covering Up? -- 3. Psycho-Sexual Therapy with Elders -- 4. The Emotional Consequences of War 50 Years On: A Psychiatrist's Perspective -- 5. Understanding and Treating the Long-Term Consequences of War Trauma -- Pt. 2. Starting from the Holocaust -- 6. Time Heals No Wounds: Psychoanalytical Considerations of the Consequences of Persecution -- 7. Late Onset of Symptoms in Holocaust Survivors -- 8. Cafe 84: A Social Day Care Centre for Survivors and their Children -- 9. From Victim to Survivor: The Possibility of Healing in Ageing Survivors of the Nazi Holocaust -- Pt. 3. Starting from Old Age -- 10. Psychic Pain Resurfacing in Dementia: From New to Past Trauma? -- 11. 'Out of the Silence': When People Can't Talk About It -- 12. Listening to the Story: Life Review and the Painful Past in Day and Residential Care Settings -- 13. We'll Meet Again: The Long-Term Psychological Effects on, and Intervention with, UK Second World War Evacuees -- Pt. 4. The Journey Continues -- 14. Political Violence and Coping in Northern Ireland -- 15. The Implications for Practice -- The Contributors -- Subject Index -- Author Index