Hannah Hahn
Hannah Hahn maintains a full-time private practice as a psychologist and psychoanalyst in New York City. After graduate-level work in English literature, she obtained a master's degree in psychology from Harvard University, a PhD in clinical psychology from Columbia University, and psychoanalytic certification from the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, where she currently supervises candidates. She taught attachment at the New York Institute for Psychoanalytic Training in Infancy, Childhood, and Adolescence. Her publications and presentations include "They Left it All Behind," in M. O'Loughlin's The Ethics of Remembering and the Consequences of Forgetting (2015) and "A Safe Place to Stand: The Holding Environment with Child Patients and Their Parents" (2005).
They Left It All Behind: Trauma, Loss, and Memory Among Eastern European Jewish Immigrants and their Children
Trauma was a potent influence in the lives of pre-1924 Eastern European Jewish immigrants. They uprooted themselves because of grinding poverty, anti-Semitic discrimination, pogroms, and the violence... (more)