Why Talking Cures

A licensed psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City. A graduate of the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies, she serves there as a faculty member and training analyst. She is past president of the Society of Modern Psychoanalysts. Formerly the executive director of the Center for Group Studies, she currently teaches in its weekend training program. She is the author of The Internal Triangle: New Theories of Female Development as well as numerous articles, many on women and women's groups. Her article “The Object Within: Pregnancy as a Developmental Milestone,” published in this journal, won the National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis Gradiva Award as best article of 2002.