Esther's Page

SELECTED WRITINGS

Doctoral thesis: Irena Klepfisz: A Life in Print - The Early Years, 1975 to 1992, University of Washington, 1994.

Chapbook: The Homeless One: A Poem in Many Voices, (Seattle: Kota, 2000)

Essays

Orr, Douglass Winnett, M.D. 1905 - 1990: Father of Seattle Psychoanalysis, HistoryLink.org, March, 2013

Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process: Meanwhile She Liked to Cook: In the Kitchen with Seattle Child Psychoanalyst Edith Buxbaum, The Seattle Star, November 2012

Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process: Dr. Helen Remick, The Little School, Dr. Edith Buxbaum & Courtesy Markers, The Seattle Star, Octover 2012

Interleavings: Serendipity and the Auto/Biographical Process, The Seattle Star, September 2012

"Teaching Crysta Casey: She lived a hard life well, even wonderfully," Raven Chronicles, Spring 2012.

"Diary of My Husband’s Illness: After His Death - Still Witnessing Alzheimer’s.” Journal of Poetry Therapy, Spring 2012

J.W. Marshall & The Poetry of Illness seattlepi.com, Oct. 2010 (Blog Harriet review of my essay).

"Witnessing Alzheimer’s through Diary and Poem - Dear Alzheimer’s: Why Did You Pick Our Sheltered Lives to Visit?" The Journal of Poetry Therapy, 2010.

"Engaging Poetry and Jewish History: An Interview with Pesha Joyce Gertler," DRASH: Northwest Mosaic, 2008.

Irena Klepfisz, loss and the poetry of exile, The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept 2005.

Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery by Maxine Kumin , The Journal of Poetry Therapy, Sept 2005.

Don't Turn Away: Poems About Breast Cancer by Patricia Wellingham-Jones, The Journal of Poetry Therapy Museletter, 2005.

On Poets, Writing & Alcoholism: A Review of Joan Fiset's Now the Day is Over," Transference. EU & Beyond, Fall 2001.

The Psychiatrist As Poet, The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, 1994.

Biography, Book reviews, Memoir

"Siegl, Eleanor: Educator (1917-1996)," HistoryLink, January 2010.

"Schmidl, Fritz" (1897-1969)," HistoryLink, April 2008.

"Edith Buxbaum, Latency and Me - Between the Oedipus Complex and Adolescence: The Quiet Time - Letter to Edith," he Journal of Poetry Therapy, Volume 19, Number 2 , June 2006, pp. 83-90.

"Analytic Entrapment," American Imago: Psychoanalysis and the Human Sciences, 62.3 (2005) 339-363.

"Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Edith Buxbaum, 1902 - 1982," ACP TODAY: Association for Child Psychoanalysis Newsletter, Winter 2003, pp. 8-9.

"Buxbaum, Edith, Ph.D., Psychoanalyst (1902-1982)," HistoryLink, 2002.

"The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak - Editor's Report," The Drunken Boat, Fall 2001, Vol.2, Issue III.

"Journal Entry 1992: I Don't Remember Why I Hated Him," Moondance: Celebrating Creative Women, Fall 2001; also published in Transference.EU & Beyond, Summer 2001.

Eating Pavlova by D.M.Thomas, The American Psychoanalyst, 1996.

"Review of Janet Malcolm's The Purloined Clinic," Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, 1994.

"Diary of An Analysis: Hermeneutically Yours - Musings on the Dyad as Text,"The Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Review, Vol. 3, No. 3, Winter 1992.

"The Psychoanalyst as Mentor," Upstream: A Magazine for Northwest Readers and Writers, Winter 1992.

Complete Publication History, Poems & Past Readings

BLOGS, WEBSITES

Writing Edith Buxbaum

Esther's Writing Works

Witnessing Alzheimer's: A Caregiver's View

Websites

The Edith Buxbaum Journal

The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak

Psychoanalysis: The Magic & the Lie

It's About Time Writers Reading Series

Dialogue Among Civilizations Through Poetry

The Writer's Role in Society

Selected Writing Classes & Workshops

Student Comments

Poeming the Silence: for Memory, Healing & Art's Sake, 2000 - present

Cancer Lifeline, Writing Classes for Women, 2006-2008

Richard Hugo House

Ann Sexton & the Transformation of Fairy Tales

Dream Writing: Stories from Your Unconscious

Writing the Body

Disappearances & Displacement: Writing on Marginality & Exile

Dream Writing: for Memory and Art's Sake

Shelter and the Writing Process, Language as Haven

Shelter and the Writing Process, Beyond the Self

Greenwood Senior Center

Poeming the Silence, Workshop and Class, 2012

North Seattle Community College

Write Your Life Story & Poetry classes for Senior Adults, 1987-1994

Orion Homeless Youth Shelter, FamilyWorks

Writing & Hunger

Seattle Women's Caucus for Art Teen Mentorship Program Journal writing

Jewish Family Service, Shalom House for adults with schizophrenia (one on one)

United Cerebral Palsy (one on one)

Council House Retirement Home:

Write Your Life Story, 1985-1987

S.P.I.C.E. (Seattle Program in Service for the Elderly)

Write Your Life Story

826 Seattle, writing & tutoring center

for youths ages 8-18, Summer 2010

T'Latte Coffee & Tea with Denise Calvetti Michaels, Anne Hursey & Katy Ellis, Saturday, Nov 17, 2012, from 3:30-5:30 pm

Abe Keller Peace Education Fundraiser, Unitarian Church, Tues. Nov. 27, 2012, 7-9 pm

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100 Thousand Poets for Change with Diane Westergaard and Priscilla Long representing It's About Time Writers Reading Series, Richard Hugo House Sept. 29, 2012, 2:00 - 6:00 pm

Writers of the Northwest, Pacific Ancient & Modern Language Association, Seattle University, Oct. 20, 2012, 1:30-3:00

Unexpected Arts Program, Poetry Garden, Seattle Center, with Ann Teplick, Oct. 21, 2012 , 3:00 - 3:30 PM

Seattle City Council, Friday July 13, 2012, 2 p.m.

Jack Straw's 50th Anniversary 24-hour Marathon, Saturday June 16, 2012, 7:15 am

Poets Against Hunger, T’Latte Coffee & Tea, Bellevue, WA, Saturday May 26, 2012, 4:15-5:45 P.M.

Raven Chronicles at Jack Straw with "Poeming the Silence" class, Friday April 20, 2012 - 7pm