Eva Fogelman is an American psychologist, writer, filmmaker and a pioneer in the treatment of psychological effects of the Holocaust on survivors and their descendants.
21 Facts About Eva Fogelman
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Eva Fogelman is the author of the Pulitzer Prize nominated book Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews During the Holocaust and co-editor of Children During the Nazi Reign: Psychological Perspectives on the Interview Process.
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Eva Fogelman is the writer and co-producer of the award-winning documentary Breaking the Silence: the Generation After the Holocaust and co-author of Children in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath: Historical and Psychological Studies of the Kestenberg Archive.
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Eva Fogelman immigrated to the United States in 1959 after living in Israel.
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Eva Fogelman received her bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College, her master's degree in rehabilitation counseling from New York University, and her doctoral degree from CUNY Graduate Center.
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Eva Fogelman has advanced training in family therapy from the Boston Family Institute and psychoanalytic psychotherapy training at Boston University Medical School.
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The result of this project was the first short-term therapy group for children of Holocaust survivors, which Eva Fogelman co-led with her colleague Bella Savran.
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In 1978, Eva Fogelman started the first short-term group for children of Holocaust survivors in Israel at Hebrew University, where she worked with Dr Hillel Klein and Uri Last studying the psychological impact of the Holocaust on survivors and their families in Israel.
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Eva Fogelman was one of the founding members of The International Network of Children of Jewish Holocaust Survivors, which was founded in September 1981, following the First World Gathering.
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Eva Fogelman organized conferences at Princeton and across the United States and internationally on the subject.
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Eva Fogelman's research culminated in the Pulitzer-prize nominated book, Conscience and Courage: Rescuers of Jews during the Holocaust, published in 1994.
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In 1984, Eva Fogelman joined forces with psychoanalyst Dr Judith Kestenberg and attorney Milton Kestenberg to expand the International Study of Organized Persecution of Children, a project of Child Development Research.
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Eva Fogelman has trained other mental health professionals extensively in the treatment of individuals who have suffered massive historical trauma, such as Armenians, Native Americans, African Americans, Vietnamese, Cubans, Guatemalans, Nicaraguans, El Salvadorans, and Cambodians.
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Eva Fogelman has an active private practice in Midtown Manhattan, where she specializes in working with individuals, couples, families and groups in psychoanalytic psychotherapy.
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Eva Fogelman supervises mental health professionals and consults for organizations and businesses.
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Eva Fogelman speaks frequently at academic conferences as well as to general audiences.
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Eva Fogelman has written for Psychology Today, Lilith, The Jewish Daily Forward, Baltimore Jewish Times, The Boston Globe, the Congressional Record, the Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Moment magazine, American Jewish History, Tikkun, Psychoanalytic Review, Congress Monthly, Holocaust and Genocide Studies, and Nashim: A Journal of Jewish Women's Studies and Gender Issues, among others.
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Eva Fogelman has been a member of the boards of iVolunteer, Child Development Research, the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, the American Friends of the Counseling Center for Women in Israel, the Training Institute of Mental Health, the Remember the Women Institute, the Sacred Grounds Foundation, and Beit Rabban Day School.
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Eva Fogelman is an adviser to the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Vice President of the American Gathering of Jewish Holocaust Survivors and their Descendants.
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Eva Fogelman is on the Editorial Advisory Board of the Hidden Child Foundation Newsletter.
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Eva Fogelman is currently working on a book with Peace Sullivan entitled The Transference Trap about unconscious factors that affect intimate relationships and how to discover the distortions caused by these influences.