ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author explains about the experience as growing up first-generation American, in the Bronx, in New York City, in a family that had been devastated by Russian pogroms and persecution and later by the Holocaust, was that surviving trauma was the condition of being alive. Living in multiple families and in multiple worlds, the author learned a great deal. The author explains that intense socializing was an integral part of growing up in densely populated neighbourhood, in which there were literally hundreds of people my age on each block, and about fifty in my building, in Pelham Parkway in the Bronx. Furthermore, the author experience has been that each time some real change occurs analytically, we learn something that we hope can help us move the bar that much higher in terms of our own expertise and vision about what is possible.
