Thinking About Couples on the Brink in a World that is Also on the Brink

Clinical psychology from New York University, and a law degree from Harvard Law School. Her postdoctoral training was at the Ackerman Institute for Family Therapy. She is the author of Treating Troubled Children and their Families; We Love Each Other But…Simple Secrets to Strengthen Your Relationship and Make Love Last; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Paul Wachtel) and most recently, The Heart of Couple Therapy: Knowing What to Do and How to Do It. Her books have been translated into a number of languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Arabic. She gives workshops at home and abroad and has taught courses in Couples Therapy at the Ackerman Institute for the Family.

Distinguished Professor of psychology in the doctoral program in clinical psychology at the City College of New York. Among his books are Psychoanalysis, Behavior Therapy, and the Relational World; Family Dynamics in Individual Psychotherapy (with Ellen Wachtel); Race in the Mind of America; Relational Theory and the Practice of Psychotherapy; Therapeutic Communication; Inside the Session; The Poverty of Affluence; and Cyclical Psychodynamics and the Contextual Self. His most recent book is Making Room for the Disavowed: Reclaiming the Self in Psychotherapy. He was awarded the Hans H. Strupp Award for Psychoanalytic Writing, Teaching, and Research; the Distinguished Psychologist Award by Division 29 (Psychotherapy) of APA; the Scholarship and Research Award by Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of APA; and the Sidney J. Blatt Award for Outstanding Contributions to Psychotherapy, Scholarship, Education and Practice.