rigorous setting allowed me to continue to learn and to expand my horizons
on a daily basis.
I thank the Shinui Institute for Family and Marriage Therapy for
introducing me to the systems perspective in psychotherapy, encouraging
me to view and treat symptoms within the broadest possible context, taking
into account the strong impact of our closest relationships on our lives. I
also thank Batya Krieger, my first therapy supervisor, for her
encouragement and guidance.
I extend special thanks to the people who influenced my thinking early in
my career, including Dr. Harvey Hornstein, not only an outstanding
professional and teacher but also an exceptionally generous person, and Dr.
W. Warner Burke, for his wisdom and inspiration—both at Columbia
University.
I express my gratitude to my parents: my father, Jonathan Frankel, who,
to my dismay, didn’t live to see this project come to fruition, and my
mother, Edith Rogovin Frankel, who has helped in a multitude of ways. I
am also grateful to my husband, Jonathan, for his love, support, friendship,
and wisdom, and to my three children, who add depth and meaning to my
life every single day.
From Amir
I’ve been fortunate to find an intellectual home for the past twelve years
in the departments of psychiatry and neuroscience at Columbia University,
where I’ve had the opportunity to work with superb clinicians and
researchers. I am grateful to the many teachers, supervisors, mentors, and
colleagues who’ve enriched my life and thinking. I specifically thank those
who’ve had ongoing influence on my professional path: Dr. Rivka Eiferman
at Hebrew University in Jerusalem, who taught me about the analytic
attitude and how to reserve judgment when listening to patients; the late Dr.
Jacob Arlow, whose work helped form the core of modern analytic thinking
and from whom I was lucky enough to have learned psychotherapeutic
practice; Dr. Lisa Mellman and Dr. Ron Rieder, who were instrumental in
helping my development as a clinician and a researcher; Dr. Daniel
Schechter, Principle Investigator in the Parent-Child Project at Columbia,
who introduced me to attachment-based therapy with children and parents