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FUNERAL DETAILS
Henry Krystal M.D.
Henry Krystal M.D. of Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, died on 08 October 2015. The Funeral was held at IRA KAUFMAN CHAPEL on Sunday, 11 October 2015 at 2:00 PM . Rabbi Marla Hornsten and Cantorial Soloist Neil Michaels officiated. Click  to watch a video of the recorded service.Interment at Machpelah Cemetery.
The family of Henry Krystal M.D. will be gathering through the evening of Tuesday, October 13 at the residence, 4690 Pickering Rd, Bloomfield Hills MI 48301. The phone number is 248-851-5670. Religious services will be conducted at 7:00 p.m. Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday evenings. The family will be receiving friends on Sunday for a service at 7:00 p.m. and on Monday and Tuesday from 2:00-4:30 p.m. and gathering again for services at 7:00 p.m. Family members include: Beloved husband of 63 years of Esther Rose Krystal. Survived by sons and daughters-in-law, Dr. John (Dr. Bonnie Becker) Krystal, Dr. Andrew (Ellen Harnick) Krystal; grandchildren: Hannah, Samuel, and Hanan Krystal. Also survived by cousins: Eeta Gershow, Paul Freeman, and Herschel (Sarah) Freeman. Son of the late Herman and the late Deborah Krystal. Brother of the late Samuel Krystal. Brother-in-law of the late Gary (the late Janet) Rich, the late Dr. Louis (the late Belleen) Shiovitz, the late Vivian (the late Dr. Louis) Beresh, the late Edith (the late Dave) Abramson, the late Marshall (the late Estyr) Reichstein, the late Dr. Joseph (the late Lenore) Rich. Henry Krystal, the American psychoanalyst and expert on the psychological impact of the Holocaust died on October 8, 2015 at the age of 90. The cause was complications of Parkinson's disease. Dr. Krystal had been professor and Interim Chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine, where he held the rank of professor emeritus at the time of his death. Dr. Krystal's studies of the survivors of the Nazi Death Camps were an outgrowth of his evaluations conducted in the 1950s and 1960s of over 1000 applicants for reparations from the German government for psychological difficulties stemming from their incarceration in the Camps. Dr. Krystal described these evaluations as extremely taxing as they evoked his own memories of captivity. He was taken by the Nazis at the age of 14 and he survived incarceration and torture in camps including Starachowice, Auschwitz/Birkinau, Bobrek, and the death marches between Buchenwald and Sachsenhausen. He was the only member of his family to survive the war. Dr. Krystal came under the sway of John Dorsey M.D., an analysand of Freud and chairman of Psychiatry at Wayne State University in Detroit (1946-1960). Taken in by relatives in Detroit, Dr. Krystal completed college, medical school there. After completing psychiatric training and then working at Detroit Receiving Hospital, he completed analytic training at the Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and entered private psychiatric practice. In the early 1960s, Krystal chaired a landmark series of international symposia on psychological traumatization, a forerunner of PTSD. These conferences led to Massive Psychic Trauma, a book edited by Dr. Krystal and published in 1968 that highlighted features common to Holocaust survivors, survivors of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, and other extreme psychological traumas. This work helped to make the case for the existence of a lasting psychological syndrome following psychological traumatization. Dr. Krystal's other books include Drug Addiction: Aspects of Ego Function, Psychic Traumatization, and his magnum opus, Integration and Self-Healing. His writings are distinguished by their deep humanism informed by his personal experiences as well as their broad foundations, which ranged from psychoanalysis, clinical psychiatry, the arts, philosophy, cultural anthropology, cognitive psychology, and neuroscience. Krystal's clinical observations suggested that psychological traumatization impaired the capacity to use emotions to guide self-regulatory and adaptive behavior. He noted that under stress, traumatized and addicted individuals tended to lose the capacity to accurately identify and to express their emotional state. Instead traumatized individuals tended to experience emotions primarily as physical sensations, to regulate internal emotional distress through action or "freezing"; a tendency that made them vulnerable to impulsive behavior and addiction as a coping strategy. Over decades, Krystal developed and refined psychotherapeutic techniques that began by enabling people first to tolerate, then label, then explore, and finally embrace their emotional distress, so that they could understand and grow from their traumatic experiences. His theoretical, clinical, and therapeutic writings have informed generations of scholars and clinicians. His work lays a clinical foundation for the links between trauma and dissociative states. It also foreshadows the development of novel therapeutic approaches to PTSD, including biofeedback and mindfulness therapy. Dr. Krystal's contributions were recognized with many honors, including the Pioneer Award of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, the Laughlin Lifetime Achievement Award of the American Psychoanalytic Association, and the Tikkun Olam (Healing the World) Award of the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Detroit. It is suggested that those who wish to further honor the memory of Henry Krystal M.D. may do so by making a contribution to: Zekelman Holocaust CenterClick to Visit Charity Website or Michigan Psychoanalytic FoundationClick to Visit Charity Website or Temple IsraelClick to Visit Charity Website |