The Reluctant Psychoanalyst
A Daughter's Memoir
$29.75
- Paperback
256 pages
- Release Date
10 November 2026
Summary
In this candid and revealing memoir, a psychoanalyst struggles to free herself from the influence of her overbearing, Holocaust-haunted father.
It is said that every memoir is an exorcism.
With a Jewish psychoanalyst father who’d lost his entire family in the Holocaust and a non-Jewish, emotionally repressed mother, where did that leave author Sylvia Flescher? For years Sylvia struggled with writers’ block, worried that her own story paled in the shadow of her parents’ enormou…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9798896363729 |
|---|---|
| Author: | Sylvia Flescher |
| Publisher: | She Writes Press |
| Imprint: | She Writes Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 10 November 2026 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 140mm x 216mm |
Sylvia Flescher
Sylvia E. Flescher, MD
A graduate of Barnard College and New York Medical College, Sylvia E. Flescher, MD, trained in psychiatry at Mount Sinai Medical Center and in psychoanalysis at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She is on the faculty at Mount Sinai and is past president of the New Jersey Psychoanalytic Society. Her work has been published in Psychoanalytic Review, and her chapter “Elsa Lost and Found” is included in the anthology On Being Adjacent to Historical Violence. Married to a retired film editor, Sylvia has two daughters and one grandson. She lives and practices in Bergen County, New Jersey.
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