A video recording of my lecture at the Fourth Annual Holocaust Educators’ Conference, “Witness to the Witnesses”: Commemorating 75 years from Liberation (see my previous blog post at http://www.iritfelsen.com/2g-witness-to-the-witness-commemorating-75-years-from-liberation-a-conference-for-children-and-grandchildren-of-holocaust-survivors-and-others-open-to-the-public/), is now available online, as are the other presentations that took place over the course of this two-day educational conference on Feb. 16-17, 2020 at the Museum of Jewish Heritage A… READ MORE>>
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A Video Recording of My Recent “Witness to the Witnesses” Lecture is Now Available Online
Posted by on April 30, 2020
Update on (and Free Reprints of) My Published Paper on My Work as a 2G Therapist with a 2G Patient
Posted by on April 26, 2020
In a previous blog post, I let you know about my recently published paper, one that means a lot to me personally. In this paper, I describe my psychotherapy relationship with a son of Holocaust survivors, and the remarkable ways in which our shared legacy and the personal differences in our family background interacted to propel changes in both of… READ MORE>>
Article About Yom HaShoa Published Online by Yeshiva University
Posted by on April 21, 2020
My blog post about Yom HaShoa was published today online by Yeshiva University. You can find the article by clicking on the image below. Irit Felsen
YOM HA’SHOA Starts This Evening: Remembering the Victims and Remembering Those Who Survived
Posted by on April 20, 2020
These are trying times for all of us, and for survivors of the Holocaust and their descendants, there are many current reminders and triggers of trauma that reverberate and might make this time even more difficult. It is particularly important in these challenging times to remember those who survived and are still with us, to show them our care in… READ MORE>>
My Lecture Today: How You Can Listen To It Online Or On The Phone
Posted by on April 6, 2020
Today I had the honor of giving a lecture in a series organized by Rabbi Babad and Relief Resources, immediately as the Corona Virus crisis began. The lectures, which can all be listened to online or by phone, are presented each week by a different mental health professional, and are offered to the general community, free of charge. My lecture… READ MORE>>
Coping with the Challenges of the COVID-19 Crisis: Focusing on the “Three C’s”
Posted by on March 28, 2020
These are strange and challenging times, as the Covid-19 pandemic has rapidly transformed our lives in extreme ways. Everything that constituted the structure of our daily lives, the way things were done, is changed. Many of us don’t go outside our homes. We do our work from our personal space, using the technologies which until very recently we might have… READ MORE>>