“In a tantalizing, page turner Dr. Heller has given us an update on understanding the mind, the brain, and the heart..."
—Prof. Judith Tydor Baumel-Schwartz on When Dreams Remember
“A compelling, profound, and deeply personal exploration of our past’s unending impact on our present...”
—Michael B. Oren, PhD on Yesterday Never Sleeps
About Jacqueline Heller
Dr. Jacqueline Heller is a physician with board certification in psychiatry and neurology and is a psychoanalyst. Over her forty-year career, she maintained a psychiatry practice and treated patients at a community clinic. Dr. Heller was an assistant clinical professor at the UCLA Department of Psychiatry and Biobehavioral Sciences within the David Geffen School of Medicine. She taught and supervised psychiatrists in training.
About When Dreams Remember
What if the fears you carry were never entirely your own?
Adopted in infancy, Hannah Glass lives an anxious and guarded life shaped by early exposure to trauma. At fourteen, she watched the 9/11 terrorist attacks unfold on television; years later, she witnessed her fiancé’s sudden death. Now an accomplished investigative journalist, Hannah begins to search for the story of her birth mother. While pursuing a professional assignment to interview a renowned trauma expert, she is drawn into a mysterious inheritance from a long-lost relative—diaries and family histories that trace her ancestry to Holocaust-era Europe and earlier histories of persecution and survival.
Praise
“Dr. Heller has achieved something extraordinary: a scientifically grounded, immensely readable summary of the workings of memory.”
—Joshua M. Greene, New York Times bestselling author of Unstoppable
“Dr. Jacqueline Heller is a compassionate, erudite, and experienced psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. In this elegant volume, she offers rich and nuanced clinical encounters, playfully innovative treatments, and contemporary psychodynamic theory conveyed in plain English…”
—Joel Yager, MD, Professor emeritus, Department of Psychiatry, University of Colorado School of Medicine
“Dr. Jackie Heller’s book provides a remarkably accessible summary of the core principles of psychoanalytic/psychodynamic therapy and demonstrates convincingly why these principles are crucial for profound personal growth.”
—Michael J. Gitlin, MD, Distinguished professor of clinical psychiatry, David Geffen School of Medicine, UCLA
“Yesterday Never Sleeps offers hope to those for whom hope seems only a passing shade on their journey through the underworld. What an extraordinary gift Jackie Heller has given us!”
—Elyn R. Saks, JD, PSYD, Orrin B. Evans distinguished professor of law; professor of psychology, psychiatry, and the behavioral sciences, USC Gould School of Law
“Heller takes us on a poignant journey into her life as a daughter of Holocaust survivors.”
—Abraham Foxman, Holocaust survivor, former national director of the Anti-Defamation League
“This book is powerful, well-written, and just WOW! This is a book you can’t put down, with essential insights and suggestions about improving our lives on every page.”
—Judy Tydor Baumel-Schwartz, Director of the Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research
Featured Video & Podcast
Stories Survive, Museum of Jewish Heritage
A Tribute to My Mother
My late mother, Fanya Gottesfeld Heller was born in 1924 and raised in a small Ukrainian village in a stable, traditional Jewish home environment. She benefitted from a secure connection to her parents, especially her adoring and empowering father, who lauded her smarts and bookishness.
Her nuclear family narrowly escaped extermination by the Nazis with the help of two Christian rescuers. Initially they hid behind a farmer’s chicken coop, but for two years squatted underground in a small ditch dug beneath a drinking trough. With barely any food and little protection from freezing cold winters and stifling hot summers it is miraculous- unfathomable, that four people survived in that dark, cramped, lice and rat-infested ditch.