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Sitting on a Suitcase: Psychoanalytic Stories

Editor : Halina Brunning, Editor : Olya Khaleelee

Reviews and Endorsements

The moving, intimate, and courageous life stories of eighteen renowned Jewish clinicians helps us understand, through an amazing international kaleidoscope, how Jewish roots may have shaped one’s own thinking and professional practice; in particular, how the complex experiences of loss, emptiness, silence, and marginality can be metabolised into curiosity, tolerance, reparation, and containment processes (for oneself and for others), with the help of psychoanalysis. These stories offer so many pieces of learning that their scope seems universal.
Gilles Amado, emeritus professor of organisational psychosociology, HEC Paris; founding member, International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations

Sitting on and going with a suitcase because of exclusion and uncertainty is again part of everyday life for many Jews. In this worldwide climate, this book has an important mission: it focuses on individuals telling their life story and how their experiences have contributed to and formed their professional life. Reading the book evoked many of my own memories.
Renate Grønvold Bugge, licensed clinical psychologist; crisis and disaster management consultant

This is a remarkable, wonderful book of multiple frames: social history, personal biographies, an inheritance from the horror of persecution, to the courage of love in a time of terror and genocide. Heartrendingly clear versions from those of different ages, countries, and class, while all holding in common their faith, their fear, their hope, and their religion. It is not just about past vile atrocities and suffering but it also alerts us to the presence of murderous repetitions in today’s wars and oppressions. And yet, in closing the cover, I know I have also read a love story and a book for our times.
Dame Ruth Silver, consultant educationalist and policy adviser; president, Further Education Trust for Leadership

I strongly recommend the brilliantly crafted book Sitting on a Suitcase. This engaging collection of personal and professional stories explores Jewish individuals’ intricate identities and experiences, highlighting how the impact of collective trauma significantly influences personal and professional decisions. I found it thoroughly captivating and relatable.
Kathleen Pogue White, PhD, William Alanson White Institute, Black Psychoanalysts Speak