Part-Objects and Perfect Wholes: Clinical Stances on Perversion

(1942-2016) was adjunct clinical professor of psychology at New York University and professor emerita of anthropology at Lehman College (CUNY). She was editor-in-chief of Studies in Gender and Sexuality and associate editor of Psychoanalytic Dialogues. Dimen published many original psychoanalytic papers, and authored several books, including The Anthropological Imagination (1977), Surviving Sexual Contradictions (1986), and Sexuality, Intimacy, Power (2003). She also edited several analytic collections, including Storms in Her Head (2001, with Adrienne Harris), Gender in Psychoanalytic Space (2002, with Virginia Goldner), and With Culture in Mind: Psychoanalytic Stories (2011).