Family Dynamics and Difficult Issues in Treating Holocaust Families

Free and open to the public.

A discussion of specific issues that complicate relationships among family members as well as with healthcare providers working with Holocaust families. Free CEU.

Presented by Dr. Irit Felsen, herself a child of Survivors. She studied in Israel, Germany and at Yale University. She is a member of the Yale Trauma Study Group, an adjunct professor at Columbia University and Yeshiva University, and the co-convener of the Trauma Working Group of the NGO Committee on Mental Health in the UN. She has published widely about survivors and about intergenerational transmission in the second generation.