Backing Into the Fray: Commentary on Paper by Katherine Oram

Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D., is Supervisor, Faculty Member, and Director of the Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; a Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies; and the Founding President of Section VIII, Couples and Family Therapy, of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the APA. She is the author of many articles on adult development, the integration of couple and family therapy, and chronic medical illness, as well as The Embedded Self: an Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couple and Family Therapy (2nd ed.), published by Analytic Press in 2009. She is in private practice in New York City.Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D., is Supervisor, Faculty Member, and Director of the Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis; a Supervisor at the National Institute for the Psychotherapies; and the Founding President of Section VIII, Couples and Family Therapy, of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the APA. She is the author of many articles on adult development, the integration of couple and family therapy, and chronic medical illness, as well as