on reflection is the weird memoir of a Holocaust survivor and healthcare professional who turned trendy in American psychoanalysis and a pacesetter of the psychoanalytic Self Psychology movement.
“Paul Ornstein's amazing lifestyles has taken him from a cheder in a Hungarian city, to the Budapest Rabbinical Seminary throughout the Holocaust, to the summit of his psychoanalytic occupation. This memoir tells this tale in bright and sometimes relocating type, together with his dazed, postwar look for surviving family, the tenderness of his romance and reunion together with his liked spouse and collaborator Anna, their inconceivable postwar learn of medication between former Nazis at Heidelberg, his use of hypnosis to remedy a paralyzed aide to a mythical congressman, to his improvement, besides Anna, right into a towering determine in self-psychology. Paul, who has been lucky to have Helen Epstein as his co-author, enriches the publication through the use of his penetrating perception to investigate his personal motivations and foibles, and people of work-mates and academics. The reader comes away astonished by means of how Paul used to be in a position to go beyond trauma and maintain a lively get pleasure from residing and a lifelong experience of optimism.” —Joseph Berger, veteran reporter, the recent York Times
“Paul Ornstein describes his impressive and relocating own, historic lifestyles trip, wasting many relations, his group, and his nation within the Shoah, but being blessed from the start with a resilient optimism and clear-eyed simple task approximately what he can accomplish and who and what issues to him... having a look Back... should be referred to as ‘My Father’s Culture’. It serves as better half quantity to his cherished Anna’s My Mother’s Eyes.” — Dr. Nancy J. Chodorow, writer, the facility of emotions, Individualizing Gender and Sexuality
“Paul Ornstein was once one of many psychoanalysts who got here to the U.S. from Europe after the second one international struggle and have become a valuable determine in American psychoanalysis. He and his spouse Anna have made a necessary contribution to constructing Heinz Kohut’s self psychology as a major a part of our pluralistic psychoanalytic international. The e-book is a portrait of a superb psychoanalyst and a great human being.” — Dr. Arnold Richards, Editor InternationalPsychoanalysis.net
“Dr. Ornstein’s tale is exclusive and, fluently written with journalist Helen Epstein, presents a fashion for psychological healthiness pros and lay humans alike to benefit how you can conquer apocalyptic trauma... Dr. Ornstein’s tale demonstrates how decision, perseverance and love can triumph over all.” — Dr. Eva Fogelman, writer of sense of right and wrong and braveness: Rescuers of Jews throughout the Holocaust
“Looking again is, like its writer, direct, with out frills, yet leaves the reader puzzling over a few of the titanic Questions. and prefer the tale of Passover, Paul Ornstein's tale is one who calls for telling and retelling.” — Lester Lenoff, MSW, LCSW, Consulting Editor, Psychoanalytic Inquiry
“As a survivor, Paul Ornstein is a version of resilience, turning his Shoah event right into a lesson in residing. As a psychoanalyst, he was once capable of distance himself from ‘ego psychology’ and to recognize, lower than the effect of Kohut, the scientific value of empathy... an enormous e-book, either relocating and intellectually challenging.” — Dr. Rachel Rosenblum, Paris Psychoanalytic Society
“This memoir conveys one man's adventure of the Holocaust and the way he used to be capable of reconstruct a lifestyles after the battle. Uniquely, it additionally offers us a suppose for what used to be a seismic occasion in analytic circles within the twentieth century, the delivery and development of Self Psychology.” —Dr. Michael Rosenbluth, FRCPC leader, division of Psychiatry, Toronto East basic Hospital
“This memoir is a gem, wealthy and deeply own in addition to a chronicle of a extraordinary lifestyles lived in the course of a notable time. and people images! they're stunning.” — Dr. James Fisch, Editorial Board, overseas magazine of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology