Flescher, Sylvia

Sylvia Flescher is a psychiatrist and psychoanalyst in private practice. She trained in psychiatry at Mount Sinai, where she is on faculty, and is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She joined the New Directions Writing Program in 1997. Her essay, Googling for Ghosts: a Meditation on Writer's Block, Mourning and the Holocaust, was published in Psychoanalytic Review in 2012. She is currently at work on a memoir.