Narrative Reflections

Lucy S. Raizman, MSW, LCSW, LMFT, is a licensed clinical social worker and marriage and family therapist, AAMFT-approved supervisor, AASECT-approved sex therapist, EMDR-trained therapist, and EFT-certified couple therapist. Since 2001, she has been a senior staff clinician at the Council for Relationships, a not-for-profit educational, counseling, and research center and postgraduate training program in couple and family therapy in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Raizman has been a research associate and interviewer for the Transcending Trauma Project since 1992. She received her MSW from the University of Pittsburgh and completed her postgraduate training at the Council for Relationships. Bea Hollander-Goldfein, PhD, LMFT, is a licensed psychologist and marriage and family therapist. Since 1991, she has been the director of the Transcending Trauma Project at the Council for Relationships. Hollander-Goldfein is the director of the Post Graduate Certificate Program in Marriage and Family Therapy accredited by the AAMFT (American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy), the director of research, and the director of supervision at the Council for Relationships. She is an instructor and supervisor in the Postgraduate Training Program and a clinical assistant professor at Jefferson Medical College. Hollander-Goldfein received her doctorate in psychology from Teachers College, Columbia University.

• Acknowledgements Introduction Chapter One Living with Stories of PainKilian FritschChapter Two The Price of SilenceRuthy KaiserChapter Three Saved by Living in Fortunate TimesPeter CapperChapter Four An Accident of BirthLyn GroomeChapter Five Beyond the Screen DoorMargaret S. RothChapter Six Learning to SurviveMichael IzzoEpilogue I Their Stories, Our LivesLucy S. RaizmanEpilogue II The Power of the Group and the Gift of ReflectionBea Hollander-GoldfeinAbout the Editors and Contributors Bibliography

This very powerful book highlights the invisible line between broken hearts and open hearts. Painful stories eloquently told invite us to look unflinchingly into the heart of suffering and the humanity beyond. But just as important, we find out that the act of bearing witness, of approaching suffering with an open heart, changes us. And always for the better.