Albert Brok:  

Hi all, I have been fortunate to have essentially been able to create a very good life and continue to do so. From Lafayette, I went on to Brooklyn Coll. where I majored in psychology, played soccer for what was to be great championship teams in 1960 & 61. (fourth best in the country in 1961 (NCAA Finals). From there went on to Graduate school on and received my PhD in 1972 in Psych. and then continued for three post doc Certificates in Psychoanlaysis, Group Therapy and Supervision. I am currently in private practice and Direct training programs at The Training Insittute for Mental Health in NY whre I Direct Training in Couple therapy and am on the faculty of various University Post Doc programs. I currently write, practice and spend a lot of time in Argentina where I grew up (hence the soccer - which I still play with the old guys in a senior league). I also do a lot of professional presenting, both in Argentina, (fluent in Spanish) and across the U.S. I Serve on the Board of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association and have writted two books and many articles. covering varied topics form romantic relations, couples therapy, Art and Salvador Dali, Group Therapy, The unconscious and Culture etc. Currently writing a book on Charlie Chaplin! Another thing is that I am collegially friendly with another graduate of our class Irwin Hirsch, who is also a Psychologist-Psychoanalyst. And is quite renown.! We have done a number of presentations together and he has on one occasion been a discussant of one of my papers. Who knew when we were bouncing around Bensonhurst! Irwin told me about the reunion! I have a wonderful son and daughter in law who gave me a lovely grandaughter (Courtney Lee Brok) And the latest news as of May 1, 2008, there is another one on the way....!!! They live in Highland Park, Ill. There have also been two big tragedies in my life. The first was the loss of my wife Carol to Cancer in 1982. I had met her in 1965 when we both lived in the Village, ( I in the East Village, she in the West Village) So I went upscale and we married in 1966 and had our son in 1972. It is very sad for me that she has not been able to see our son Jorden grow up fully and be the mature man he is and the good fatherand husband he has become and of course share in the joy of our grandaughter. (and new grandcdhild on the way). The other, is that my second wife Aracelia came down with severe and rapid onset of Alzheimers though she was only 57 years old. She was a superb Professor at Columbia and a clinical p...Expand for more