Hamilton Books
Pages: 184
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7618-6341-0 • Paperback • April 2014 • $43.99 • (£34.00)
978-0-7618-6342-7 • eBook • May 2014 • $41.50 • (£32.00)
Dr. Gertrude Pollitt, Executive Director Emerita Center for Psychoanalytic Study in Chicago, is a practicing psychoanalyst, clinician, and social worker. She serves as consultant to agencies, schools, and mental health professionals and has been published in professional journals.
Acknowledgements
Prologue
1.Childhood in Vienna
2.Vienna Before the Nazis
3.Anschluss
4.On My Own in London
5.Back to School
6.Germany
7.Camp Aschau
8.Back in London
9.Chicago
10.Glencoe
11.The Center for Psychoanalytic Study
12.Highland Park
Epilogue
Appendix
Selected Bibliography
Dr. Pollitt is an extraordinary woman. She started out helping people in dire need and has continued to do so all her life. She continues her private practice, which has always included patients suffering from severe psychopathology.
— Bertram P. Karon, PhD., ABPP, professor of psychology emeritus, Michigan State University
Dr. Gertrude Pollitt has written a fascinating description of her life. Although she has endured many hardships, the overall effect of her story is positive and uplifting. No challenge seems to have been too great for her to tackle and succeed in solving.
— Richard D. Chessick, Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Northwestern University
Dr. Pollitt’s experience is unique among all the stories of survival that I have heard while working closely with dozens of survivors. A must-read for historians, students, and scholars of World War II.
— Matthew Sackel, formerly the librarian at the Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center in Skokie, Illinois
A rare memoir by a courageous woman with a gift for healing children traumatized by war as well as those emotionally hurt in America.
— Fraidie Martz, clinical social worker and author of Open Your Hearts: The Story of the Jewish War Orphans in Canada