Who Has the Right to Mourn?: Relational Deference and the Ranking of Grief

Harvey Peskin, Ph.D., dedicated his life to the practice and teaching of clinical psychology as well as the study of trauma and the Holocaust. He received his bachelor’s degree from City College of New York, his Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of California, Berkeley and served as Professor of Psychology at San Francisco State University for 36 years, retiring as professor emeritus in 1994. He also served as a Research Psychologist at the Institute of Human Development at the University of California, Berkeley, as an adjunct faculty member of the Wright Institute and continued to conduct longitudinal research throughout his career. In 2013, the International Psychoanalytical Association awarded him the Hayman Prize for Published Work Pertaining to Traumatized Children and Adults for his paper Man Is a Wolf to Man: Disorders of Dehumanization in Psychoanalysis. In 2015, he won the Elise M. Hayman Award for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide for his paper Uses of Guilt in the Treatment of Dehumanization. He served two consecutive terms as President of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California, and worked as a clinical psychologist in private practice for 60 years, from 1958 until shortly before his death in April, 2018.
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