Narrative Reflections: How Witnessing Their Stories Changes Our Lives - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761862358 ISBN 13: 9780761862352

Publisher: Hamilton Books, 2013

Synopsis

Narrative Reflections presents a series of poignant personal reflections by mental health professionals, triggered by reading interviews of Holocaust survivors and their families. Inspired by the practice of narrative therapy, these essays bear witness to the experience of survivors and facilitate deeper levels of self-awareness by each of the contributors. In each chapter, the themes of struggle, survival, and resilience demonstrate the power of narrative reflection as well as the role that narrative therapy might play for clinical mental health professionals. Together, co-editors Lucy S. Raizman and Bea Hollander-Goldfein and contributors Kilian Fritsch, Ruthy Kaiser, Peter Capper, Lyn Groome, Margaret S. Roth, and Michael Izzo engaged in a process that put each of them in closer contact with their own lives.

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About the Author

Lucy S. Raizman, MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is a licensed clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist, AAMFT-approved supervisor, AASECT-approved sex therapist, EMDR-trained therapist, and EFT-certified couple therapist. Since 2001, she has been a senior staff clinician at the Council for Relationships, a not-for-profit educational, counseling, and research center and postgraduate training program in couple and family therapy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raizman has been a research associate and interviewer for the Transcending Trauma Project since 1992. She received her MSW from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her postgraduate training at the Council for Relationships.

Bea Hollander-Goldfein, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist. Since 1991, she has been the director of the Transcending Trauma Project at the Council for Relationships. Hollander-Goldfein is the director of the Post Graduate Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy accredited by the AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy), the director of research, and the director of supervision at the Council for Relationships. She is an instructor and supervisor in the Postgraduate Training Program and a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College. Hollander-Goldfein received her doctorate in psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamilton Books
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761862358
• ISBN 13: 9780761862352
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 140
• Editor: Raizman Lucy S.