The Treatment of a Young Woman: Trauma and Anxiety Exacerbated by Cultural Components with Margaret Freedman at MITPP

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2019May 1, 2019 EVENTS

MITPP OPEN HOUSE & CLINICAL PRESENTATION: FOR THOSE CONSIDERING POSTGRADUATE TRAINING Tuesday, June 25, 2019
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM THE TREATMENT OF A YOUNG WOMAN: TRAUMA AND ANXIETY EXACERBATED BY CULTURAL COMPONENTS

A young Chinese woman presented with anxiety and depression exacerbated by her birth in China during the period of One Child Rule and infanticide. The influence of trauma and cultural devaluation since Continue reading The Treatment of a Young Woman: Trauma and Anxiety Exacerbated by Cultural Components with Margaret Freedman at MITPP

Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Film, History, Politics

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LIBERATION HEROES: THE LAST EYEWITNESSES Wednesday, May 1: 7pm ET/ 6pm CT/ 4pm PT and again at 11pmPT on DISCOVERY

From Deadline: Discovery Channel will air the documentary Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses, on Wednesday, May 1 at 7 PM ET, to coincide with the nation’s Holocaust Remembrance Day.

The film draws on a collection of 55,000 testimonies of survivors and Continue reading Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses

Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Psychoanalysis

Click Here to Read: Working with Sexuality: Bodies, Desires and Imagination on the Confer website.

Sculpture from a temple at Khajuraho. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew

By Tamar SchwartzMay 1, 2019May 1, 2019 Politics

Click Here to Read A Terrorist Tried to Kill Me Because I Am a Jew. I Will Never Back Down I do not know why God spared my life in my Poway synagogue. All I can do is make this borrowed time matter By Yisroel Goldstein in The New York Times on April 29, 2019.

Photo: Rabbi isroel Goldstein by Perdelsky at English Wikipedia. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America

By Tamar SchwartzApril 29, 2019April 29, 2019 Uncategorized

Click Here to Read: A Brief History of Anti-Semitic Violence in America: The synagogue attack in Pittsburgh may be the deadliest attack against Jews in American history—but it’s nowhere near the first by Isabel Fattal on the Atlantic website on October 28, 2018.

Memorials to Victims. A memorial outside the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.