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Local Psychoanalyst to Visit Ramapo College, Discuss the Impact of Having Holocaust Survivors as Parents

(PDF) (DOC) (JPG)August 22, 2011

(MAHWAH, NJ) – Dr. Sylvia Flescher, a psychiatrist/psychoanalyst in private practice in Ridgewood, N.J. and a faculty member at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York City, will speak at Ramapo College of New Jersey in September at the invitation of the Gross Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies of Ramapo College.

Her talk, “Googling for Ghosts: A Meditation on Writer’s Block, Mourning and the Holocaust,” will describe her decades-long struggle with writer’s block and how her voice was overshadowed by her analyst father, a writer and Holocaust survivor. Themes of survivor guilt, incomplete mourning and the transmission of trauma to the second generation will be discussed.

Dr. Flescher will speak on Thursday, September 22 at 7:15 p.m. in the Trustees Pavilion. The presentation is free and open to the public.  For more information or to reserve a seat, please call (201) 684-7409.

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