mercredi 11 août 2021

Hommage à Mony Elkaïm, pionnier du champ des thérapies familiales

I was a very naive student from Australia. Invited to attend a meeting of the World Union of Jewish Students! 

Imagine a colonial australian boy with no exposure to the world, deeply paroquial, from a strong eastern european jewish community and was surrounded by people that I could make no sense of ..

Jose Goldstein from Costa Rica, a Carlo Levi from Milan.. who complained that his radio had stopped speaking to him in Italian the minute he listened to it in Luxembourg!  we all laughed.

But the person I was very impressed with was Mony Elkaim who was already a doctor and organizer of the meeting. Je suis maoiste-sioniste... he said  



I never held a long discussion with him, I met him when we were just peeping at our horizons, he from Belgium and me from Melbourne and a fleeing momen, je suis maoiste-sioniste..

Many years later I was in Brussels , I should have made an attempt to see him. Now he is no more .


Someone comes into your heart, leaves a space that cannot be filled or remain unfilled.


then I began to think about people, whom I met briefly, very briefly usually, but they somehow remain in my memory. Obviously their achievements in the field of human behaviour leaves a blot in the canvas of life. 

May you live to be 120, the psychiatrist who does not prescribe medications. 

I hold psychiatrists who talk to their patients and do not use medications in high esteem, perhaps that is why I am so close to many psychologist friends.

Now a thought for the day arrives from Brasil


não posso fazer todo o bem que o mundo precisa mas sei que o mundo precisa de todo bem que eu posso fazer

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