Cultural Perspectives Introduction

Psychoanalyst and adult and child psychiatrist. She is director emeritus of the Psychoanalytic Training Program at the Institute of Contemporary Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis in Washington, DC. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Washington Baltimore Center for Psychoanalysis and an associate clinical professsor at Georgetown University Medical School. Dr. Hershberg serves on the editorial board of Psychoanalytic Inquiry. Dr. Hershberg has published and presented numerous papers on subjects including biography and psychoanalysis, art, pregnancy and creativity, therapeutic action, ethics, and the mother/daughter relationship. She is currently working on a book about women and aging as a later developmental stage.