POETICS
Forthcoming:
"Teaching Crysta Casey: She lived a hard life well, even wonderfully, 1952 — 2008," Raven Chronicles, forthcoming March 2012.
"Diary of My Husband’s Illness: After His Death - Still Witnessing Alzheimer’s.” Journal of Poetry Therapy, forthcoming Winter 2012
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Irena Klepfisz: A Life in Print - The Early Years, 1975 to 1992, University of Washington, 1994 - doctoral thesis.
"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.
Biography, Book reviews, Memoir
"Pioneers of Child Psychoanalysis: Edith Buxbaum, 1902 - 1982," ACP TODAY: Association for Child Psychoanalysis Newsletter, Winter 2003, pp. 8-9.
"The Psychoanalytic Experience: Analysands Speak - Editor's Report," The Drunken Boat, Fall 2001, Vol.2, Issue III.
"I Don't Remember Why I Hated Him," Transference.EU & Beyond, Summer 2001.
"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.
Work in Progress
Esther's Writing Works
for Memory, Healing & Art's Sake
Esther Altshul Helfgott, Ph.D.
History, University of Washington, 1994
2010 Jack Straw Writer
BLOGS, WEBSITES, CLASSES
Websites
Selected Writing Classes & Workshops Taught
Richard Hugo House
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
for youths ages 8-18, Summer 2010
