Michaelangelo's Moses Re-visited: Reflections Through Post-Freudian Theoretical Lenses on the Roots of Creativity

is a British Independent Psychoanalyst qualified also in the analysis of children and in group analysis and Consultant in Child, Adolescent and Family Psychiatry. She is Israeli, South African born and medically trained, from 1965-1977 at the Tavistock Institute and Clinic [much influenced by Bowlby, Sutherland, Cyril Sofer and Derek Miller], a Foundation member of the Royal College of Psychiatrists. Her analysts were Sam Stein, Paula Heimann, Charles Rycroft and Masud Khan, and training supervisors were Michael Balint, Eva Rosenfeld, Donald W. Winnicott, Marion Milner and Martin James.
As Tavistock consultant she worked for seven years with H.M. Home Office Penal Service, along with intensive private psychoanalytic practice. After many years of Holocaust studies she moved to Jerusalem where among other activities she ran a private practice, was briefly an Hon. Consultant in Child Psychiatry at Hadassah, lectured in various places on psychotherapy, worked with Family Association of Consulting and Educational Services, trained as an official tourist guide, founded and worked with Israeli Association for Social Care, Health and Solution of Conflicts in implementation of resolutions and recommendations adopted in Cairo which she drafted about the ways in which mental health and allied professionals might work toward the non-violent management of conflict and towards building and maintaining healthy societies. Her interests and activities are wide-ranging and cover many topics, including the additional burdens to grieving in the wake of human savagery; impact of trauma and its implications for individuals and societies, affect contagion phenomena; dissociative identity disorders following traumatization including ritual abuse; the notion of God, gods, the continuity principle that is YAHWF/Ws-Is-Will Be, and their usage; psychoanalysis; psychotherapeutic consultations; interrelationship of enactment, symbolization, somatization dream life and ‘cultural’ phenomena; cross-cultural issues; poetry; and those whose ideas most influence her. Good people, food, music and art, of course are relished and vital in her life.