I have the honor of presenting at the upcoming conference Psyche and Psychoanalysis, Creativity and Culture, History and Rebuilding, which has an outstanding program, including an array of luminaries from various fields. The conference will take place on March 9-10, 2021, and is organized by the Interdisciplinary Clinical Center of the Faculty of Welfare and Health Sciences and the Weiss-Livnat… READ MORE>>
Tag | resilience
Reminder: Psyche and Psychoanalysis, Creativity and Culture, History and Rebuilding: An international (online) conference
Posted by on March 7, 2021
COVID, Trauma and Building Resilience a Year Later
Posted by on March 4, 2021
Presentation Date: 03/11/21
Location: Zoom
On March 11, I will be speaking to the professional community of The East Side Council of the Aging (ESCOTA), a voluntary not-for-profit interagency interdisciplinary organization for professionals in the… READ MORE>>
Psyche and Psychoanalysis, Creativity and Culture, History and Rebuilding: An international (online) conference
Posted by on February 28, 2021
Presentation Date: 03/09/21
Location: Zoom (Haifa)
I have the honor of presenting at the upcoming conference Psyche and Psychoanalysis, Creativity and Culture, History and Rebuilding, which has an outstanding program, including an array of luminaries from… READ MORE>>
Annual Meeting of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship to the United Nations
Posted by on February 8, 2021
Presentation Date: 02/11/21
Location: Zoom
Karen Hopenwasser, my co-chair of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO on Mental Health in Consultative Relationship to the United Nations, and I would like to invite the public… READ MORE>>
Are You as Kind to Yourself as You are Towards A Friend? Why Self-Compassion is Important, and How to Develop it
Posted by on January 18, 2021
The Harvard Business Review posted a valuable article on January 12, 2021. The article, entitled “Be Kinder to Yourself”, by Alice Boyes, discusses what has been termed self-compassion, an attitude that has been shown in multiple psychological studies to be associated with resilience and other mental health benefits. Self-compassion means being as kind to ourselves when we fail, as we… READ MORE>>
A Recent Paper About the Transcendent Power of Human Creativity for Child Survivors
Posted by on September 6, 2020
A very recent paper by my colleague Amit Shrira and his colleagues from Bar Ilan university, published in the September issue of the prestigious journal “Trauma Psychology: Theory, Research, Practice, Policy” describes the results of interviews with 30 older visual artists, ranging in age between 72-94, who are all child survivors of the Holocaust. The interviews aimed to understand… READ MORE>>