On Thursday September 22, I will be giving a half-day workshop starting at 9:15am at the Jewish Family Service in Elizabeth, NJ. This workshop is an in-service for the staff of the JFS and invited guests. The workshop will focus on trauma-informed care of elderly trauma survivors as a particularly vulnerable patient population facing higher risk of dehumanization and infrahumanization… READ MORE>>
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Workshop on Trauma-Informed Care of Aging Holocaust Survivors, Sept. 22/2016
Posted by on September 17, 2016
Thoughts from the Fourth Meeting of the Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors in Boro Park, Tues. 9/13/16.
Posted by on September 16, 2016
Someone recently told me of a friend, a son of Holocaust survivors, who admitted that when he decided to marry his wife, the thought crossed his mind that, should they ever have to flee with children, she is the kind of woman who would be able to cope and handle the stress of it. The man was acknowledging what feels… READ MORE>>
Fourth meeting of the Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors on Tues. Sept. 13
Posted by on September 1, 2016
On Tues. Sept. 13, I will lead the next meeting of the Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors at the Y in Boro Park. This meeting, which will take place at 7:00pm Tuesday, September 13, will be the fourth in the series of monthly meetings. Irit Felsen
Adult Siblings in Holocaust Survivors’ Families
Posted by on July 31, 2016
This past week we held at the Boro Park Y in Brooklyn the third meeting of the Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors, and the topic was the relationships between siblings in Holocaust families. Most of the sixty participants who attended this week reported, by show of hands, having grown up with at least one sibling. Indeed, most people… READ MORE>>
Third meeting of the Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors this week: Siblings Relationships
Posted by on July 24, 2016
This coming Tuesday I will lead the third meeting of the Discussion Group for Children of Holocaust Survivors at the Y in Boro Park. This meeting, which will take place at 7:00pm this coming Tuesday, July 26, will be the third in series of monthly meetings. The topic this week will focus on Sibling Relationships in families of Holocaust Survivors…. READ MORE>>
Paper published: Encounters with Chronic Psychiatric Holocaust Survivors: Trauma, Psychosis and Functionality
Posted by on February 16, 2016
Last week a paper I wrote, entitled “Encounters with Chronic Psychiatric Holocaust Survivors: Trauma, Psychosis and Functionality” appeared in issue 6 of the online journal “Kavod”. The paper can be found at http://kavod.claimscon.org/2016/01/encounters-with-chronic-psychiatric-holocaust-survivors-trauma-psychosis-and-functionality/. The paper describes a research project conducted by me and Dori Laub with chronically hospitalized psychiatric Holocaust survivors. “Kavod: Honoring Aging Survivors” is a professional Journal for… READ MORE>>