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Janet Hadda, Ph.D.
OFFICE 850 Masselin Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 933-2097
Janet Hadda, Ph.D., is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Institute for Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Training and Supervising Analyst, New Center fore Psychoanalysis, and Professor of Yiddish, Emerita, UCLA.
Dr. Hadda’s research focuses on the blending of two distinct areas: literature and clinical psychoanalysis. Her early writings were devoted to studies of 20th century American Yiddish poetry and the effect of the Holocaust on Yiddish writers. More recently, her focus has turned to the influence of early childhood development on authors and on the characters they create. Her clinical work is rooted in intersubjectivity and in the role of initial attachments on the subsequent relationships that the individual forms
AREAS OF SPECIALTY - Immigrants
- Holocaust survivors and second and third generation
EDUCATION
License # RP 45
- Ph.D., Southern California Psychoanalytic Institute, 1988
- Ph.D., Columbia University, 1975
- M.A., Cornell University, 1969
- B.S.Ed., University of Vermont, 1966
PUBLICATIONSBooks:
- Yankev Glatshteyn. G.K. Hall, 1980 (197 pages)
- Passionate Women, Passive Men: Suicide in Yiddish Literature. SUNY Press, 1988 (223 pages)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life. Oxford University Press, 1997 (243 pages)
In Polish (Translated by Monika Adamczyk-Garbowska): MUZA SA, 2001 (207 pages)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer: A Life , With a New Introduction. The University of Wisconsin Press, 2003 (243 pages)
Edited Journals: - Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History, Special Issue on Jewish-American Autobiography. Co-Edited with Hana Wirth-Nesher, Vol.18, 2, No. 2 (113-206) & 3 (207-298), (May and September, 1998)
Recent Articles: - AImagining Yiddish,@ Pakn Treger 41 (Spring, 2003): 10-19.
- “My Mother’s Eyes: Holocaust Memories of a Young Girl” by Anna Ornstein. Cincinnati: Emmis Books (2004). 175 pages. International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self-Psychology 2,4 (2007): 483-86
- "Transmitting Ashkenaz," Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies,Vol, 25, 1, (Fall, 2006): 114-26;
- Ginsberg In Hospital," American Imago, Vol.65, No.2 (Summer, 2008): 229-259;
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