At Lunch with Michelle Friedman: Exploring Women's Ancestry (Virtual)

Julie Salamon, New York Times best-selling author and journalist, sits down with author and psychiatrist Michelle Friedman to discuss her career and recent book Divine Corners. Michelle Friedman is a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and teacher whose life and work explore the art of listening and the resilience of the human spirit. Raised on a chicken farm in the Catskills by Holocaust survivor parents, she became a healer devoted to helping others find meaning and repair. In her recent memoir, Divine Corners, Michelle weaves together hair-raising stories of her parents’ wartime survival with vivid memories of life on the farm. Her unflinching yet loving inquiry explores Jewish identity, resilience, and what makes one person break while another survives.

A graduate of Barnard College, NYU School of Medicine, and the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center, she holds the Sharon and Steven Lieberman Chair in Pastoral Counseling at Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and is also an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Hospital. She maintains a private practice in Manhattan, where she lives with her husband.