About me
I was born in 1950. Both of my parents were Holocaust survivors. My father spent seven years in two Nazi concentration camps, while my mother was persecuted in her native Austria because of her Jewish roots. I was married in 1979. My wife and I have one son, born in 1984 and one grandson, born last September. I am currently retired. I spent my entire professional career working in the field of community mental health, mostly as a psychotherapist and clinical supervisor but also as an administrator in a very large community mental health agency. My interests currently are in psychoanalytic history and psychoanalytic theory. I currently reside in the borough of Queens of NYC where I have lived for many, many years. Oh yes, and I happen to be the grandson of Paul Federn MD who was a pioneer in the psychoanalytic treatment of extreme states.