Sylvia Flescher, M.D., will join us in person on Friday, November 17th, and share with us excerpts from her memoir-in-progress. Her memoir describes the evolution of her identity as a clinician since her analytic training in the ’80s. Dr. Flescher will talk about the origins and development of her ambivalence towards psychoanalysis, considering the role that her training analysis played as well as the impact that her father –an analyst, psychiatrist and Holocaust survivor– had on her.

In a poignant and open way, she will share with us how she struggled to find her own voice, and how her life experiences exemplify the phenomenon of intergenerational transmission of trauma. Dr. Flescher’s presentation will address the unique trajectory that each clinician paves through their own life experiences, and will show how writing a memoir can support and extend the working through process for analysts across their professional life. She sees her memoir as both an homage to her father and as a means of exorcising him and his long shadow from her psyche.

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