My Way

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Notes

¹I prefer not to use the term “holocaust” because its etymology, related to ritual sacrifice, is alien to me.

²My father and his brothers, and the milieu in which they grew up, are described in Shore (2006).

³Unlike the American liberal arts model, Israeli undergraduates usually study two disciplines from their freshman year on, and then pursue one of them in graduate school.

⁴It was composed of 1/3 faculty, 1/3 graduates, and 1/3 candidates.

⁵My stepmother lived till 1995, but in her last years her mind was clouded by Alzheimer's disease. I still remember with pain the day she no longer remembered who my father was, or the day she started seeing me as her long-deceased twin brother, or as her beloved nephew.

⁶Clinical training of psychologists is usually conducted in Israel in two-year M.A. programs.

⁷Israel has a strong tradition of psychotherapy schools, where psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers and some art therapists go for three-year training programs, combining courses and supervision.

⁸She stayed in Israel when her late husband, Joe Sandler, held the Freud Chair at the Hebrew University.

⁹The Israel Psychoanalytic Society, which used to be quite classical, is now influenced by the competing models of Klein, Bion, Winnicott, Kohut, and relational psychoanalysis.

¹⁰Including IPS President, Chair of Training Committee, Chair of Admissions, Chair of Ethics Committee, and Chair of Program Committee.