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Getting Through It: Resilience Through Cancer

Helen Epstein and Ira Brenner

May 3, 2022


Join veteran journalist Helen Epstein and Professor of Psychiatry Ira Brenner for a thoughtful and inspiring conversation on what it takes to maintain resilience, community, and even a sense of humor during cancer. Key points will be taken from Helen Epstein’s new book, launching May 3, 2022, Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer During Covid.

Helen brings readers along on her journey through a medical steeplechase of surgery, chemo and radiation therapy led by an almost all-female team of doctors, nurses, techs and support staff. Her book is an investigation into the changing nature of the contemporary medical world and an affecting portrait of the psychological, physical and spiritual impacts of getting cancer.

The audience will walk away with a better understanding of some of the following topics:

  • The critical importance of regular check-ups, even throughout the fraught and fearful Covid era; studies have shown that screenings for some cancers fell by 90% when the virus struck
  • How to maintain communication with friends and family in your own way at your own pace
  • The new realities of getting gynecological cancer in the 21st century
  • The importance of laughter
  • The pro-active approach to cancer treatments and connecting with the medical teams that can save your life
Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein is a veteran journalist and acclaimed author of the non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust …

Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein

Helen Epstein (helenepstein.com) is a veteran journalist and acclaimed author of the non-fiction trilogy Children of the Holocaust, Where She Came From: A Daughter’s Search for Her Mother’s History, and The Long Half-Lives of Love and Trauma. Her book about GYN Cancer is Getting Through It: My Year of Cancer during Covid. Helen was born in Prague and grew up in Manhattan where she attended Hunter High School and City College before graduating from Hebrew University. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Washington Post, Jerusalem Post, Boston Globe, New York and newyorker.com.

She is married, with two sons and two grandchildren.

Ira Brenner

Ira Brenner

Dr. Brenner is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University …

Ira Brenner

Ira Brenner

Dr. Brenner is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Sidney Kimmel Medical College of Thomas Jefferson University, and Training and Supervising Analyst at the Psychoanalytic Center of Philadelphia. He has a special interest in psychic trauma and the mind-body connection. Dr. Brenner has authored of over 100 publications, co-edited three special issues of The International Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies, and has published 6 books: The Last Witness — The Child Survivor of the Holocaust, (with Judith Kestenberg, 1996); Dissociation of Trauma ( 2001); Psychic Trauma (2004); Injured Men (2009); Dark Matters — Exploring the Realm of Psychic Devastation (2014); and The Handbook of Psychoanalytic Holocaust Studies — International Perspectives (2020).

He maintains a practice of adults and children in the greater Philadelphia area.


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