Michelle Fried­man is a psy­chi­a­trist and psy­cho­an­a­lyst in pri­vate prac­tice, the chair of Pas­toral Coun­sel­ing at Yeshi­v­at Chovevei Torah Rab­bini­cal School (YCT), and Asso­ciate Clin­i­cal Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try at the Icahn School of Med­i­cine at Mount Sinai Hos­pi­tal in New York City. Dr. Fried­man has been involved in bridg­ing reli­gious life and men­tal health issues for over 30 years, spear­head­ing edu­ca­tion­al ini­tia­tives on a vari­ety of top­ics includ­ing reli­gious iden­ti­ty, post­par­tum depres­sion, and sex­u­al­i­ty. Rachel Yehu­da, Ph.D. is a Pro­fes­sor of Psy­chi­a­try and Neu­ro­science at the Icahn School of Med­i­cine at Mount Sinai and Direc­tor of the Men­tal Health Patient Care Cen­ter at the James J. Peters Bronx Vet­er­ans Affairs hos­pi­tal, both in New York City. Her work on treat­ment and detec­tion for PTSD, with a recent focus on the effects of trau­ma on Holo­caust sur­vivors and their adult off­spring, have earned Dr. Yehu­da numer­ous fed­er­al research grants and achieve­ment awards as well as hon­orary pro­fes­sor­ships from both the Max Planck Insti­tute of Psy­chi­a­try in Munich and Lei­den University.

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