Martin Srajek

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Gender	Male
Occupation	Psychotherapist
Location	Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, United States
Introduction	Grew up in Hamburg, Germany, came to the US at 24 to study World Religions and Philosophy (Ph.D.) and taught in those fields until 1996. I have a book published: In the Margins of Deconstruction: Jewish Conceptions of Ethics in Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida. I have three sons (Noah, b. 1996; Jacob, b. 1998; Gabriel, b. 2005). Switched careers in 1996. Got MS/MSW at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and am now licensed in the state of Illinois to practice as a psychotherapist.
Interests	leisure: Bicycling, piano, guitar, reading, gardening; professional: boys' and men's issues; adoption; attachment;
Favorite Movies	The Graduate; The Hours (which I consider to be a movie about men); Lost in Translation; I Love you Man; Tsotsi;
Favorite Music	The Beatles; Reinhard Mey (German song-writer); Beethoven; YoYo Ma playing The Mission soundtrack Dvorak;
Favorite Books	Buddenbrooks (Th. Mann); Prodigal Summer (B. Kingsolver); Middlesex (J. Eugenides); Expecting Adam (M. Beck); A Suitable Boy (V. Seth);