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Conference Presentation: Survivor Resilience
The Resiliency of the Survivor: Views of a Child Holocaust Survivor/Psychiatrist
A presentation given at the Pike Conference on “The Holocaust and Its Legacy: Resiliency, Fragility and Restitution of Survivors,” Sunday October 23, 2011 at Hillel House, Boston University. By Dr. Robert Krell May 5, 1945 is indelibly etched into my … Continue Reading ››Healing Water: Guided Imagery and Music Therapy
Assessing Trauma, Abuse and Loss via Guided Imagery and Music
by Amy Clements-Cortés, Ph.D., MusM, MTA, Mt-BC, FAMIAbstract
Holocaust survivors often face many psychological and emotional issues such as fear, and intrusive thoughts and images as a result of the traumatic experiences they endured. Guided Imagery and Music is … Continue Reading ››
Music Therapy
Music Therapy To Sever the Silence of a Childhood Holocaust Survivor
By Amy Clements-Cortes Ph.D, MusM, MTAIntroducing Manya
Manya was a 72-year-old female widow, with one son, Peter, married to Belinda. Manya was a childhood survivor of the Holocaust who was hidden during the war and separated from her mother for several years. … Continue Reading ››Early Trauma and Resilience
Theory Through the Eyes of Child Survivors of the Holocaust
By Svetlana Shklarov MD, Ph.D, RSWSomehow, we children who were meant to die, have lived. We have survived even our survival. And in our various stages of continued hiding many have carved out substantive lives with careers and family. And some … Continue Reading ››
Soviet Jewish Child Survivors
Identity and Resilience After Long Silence
By Svetlana Shklarov MD, Ph.D, RSWRussian Jews have learned to overcome their fear, know how to make their silence heard as a means of action; theirs is a courage of defiance. … Desperate, you? Your capacity for hope does not date from today. Feeble, you? … Continue Reading ››