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• Psychoanalysis &
  Cultural Perspectives

Psychoanalysis

• Article: The Museum Show Has an Ego Disorder. Dr. Bursztajn's letter to the New York Time Magazine regarding a musem exhibition about psychoanalysis.
• Article: Learning to Do Psychotherapy With Psychotic Patients. In remembrence: Elvin Semrad, MD (1909-1976).

Cultural Perspectives

Lodz and the Shoah

• Article: Lessons from a WWII ghetto resonate with doctors today. The Boston Globe features a story on Dr. Bursztajn's teaching activities at Harvard medical School relative to learning from his parent's experiences with doctors during the Shoah. This article was inspired by a recent Surgical Grand Rounds, "Health Care in the Lodz Ghetto: Care, Compliance, Conscience and Resistance" that Dr. Bursztajn presented at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center on July 8, 2009. More recently, the story has been picked up by the Los Angeles Times.
• The Shoah and its Aftermath: the testimony of Dr. Bursztajn's father, a Holocaust survivor.
  • Harvard Medical Alumni Bulletin issue from Autumn 2006 titled "Sparks of Inspiration" includes the article "Prescriptions for Hope". Lessons from the Holocaust in how doctors can heal through hope, an adaptation of Dr. Bursztajn's original article above.
  • For more information on Jewish Lodz, please visit the Lodz ShtetLinks home page.
• A photograph of Dr. Bursztajn's mother who was part of the Lodz resistance in 1944.
• Stories and recollections of fragments of Doctor Salomea Kape's life with the shadow of the holocaust behind it:
  • The Unforgotten, first place in the Literature: short story category in the 2003 American Society of Anesthesiologists 35th Annual Art Exhibit "Fountain of Youths." This is a powerful story about the complications of forgiveness.
  • On the Autopsy Table in Lodz...Biebow from Bremen, a Memoir by Salomea Kape published in the Summer 1993 issue of Lilith, The Independent Jewish Women's Magazine, Volume 18, No. 3.
  • "Searching for Daniel," also by Dr. Kape was published on page 10 of the September 2007 (PDF) issue of Together as well as Dr. Bursztajn's Letter to Editor regarding this article.
  • Photo and short biography of Dr. Daniel Weiskopf, featured in the memoir above.
  • Daniel Weiskopf's entry in Marek Szukalak's book on Jewish Lodz (also in the original Polish).
  • Hunger, appeared in JAMA, September 23/30, 1988, Volume 260.
  • Fatal Freedom, a short story.
• From one of Dr. Bursztajn's medical school classmates, another way to remember the past:

  I was on a cruise of the western Mediterranean last month, followed by a few days in the south of France. I spent them with a teacher who guided her elementary pupils through a project to document the life and times of two Jewish girls, aged 3 and 8, who lived in the town of (then) 300 before being taken to Sobibor. A pupil proposed renaming the school "Lea and Elizabeth Schnitzler"; this was done. Their work won a French national award for teaching the Holocaust. When the award was about to be given at the Sorbonne nearly two years ago, a French Jewish organization looked to see if there were any surviving relatives of the girls. Through a convoluted set of Internet connections, they got in touch with me. Those girls were my third cousins! When I visited France, I met the girls' former playmates, now septuagenarians. Here is a journalist's account of my visit to the school. Later I saw a displaced persons' camp (Rivesaltes) near Perpignan, a maternity home for those from the camp, some marvelous churches, and (just before the teacher and her husband drove me across the Spanish frontier) the town where the girls were arrested.

• "Psychic Numbing and Genocide," the lead article in the November 15, 2007 issue of the American Psychological Association's Psychological Science Agenda.
• Article: Holocaust Survivors at Higher Risk for All Cancers. Jewish survivors of World War II who were potentially exposed to the Holocaust are at a higher risk for cancer occurrence, according to a new study published online October 26 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Cultural Highlights

• Article: Musician Plays Violin as Surgeons Operate on His Brain.

Dr. Bursztajn has an active patient care practice and consults to physicians, institutions, judges, and plaintiff and defense counsel nationally.