Response to Commentaries on “the Last Public Psychoanalyst?: Why Fromm Matters in the 21st Century”

Ilene Philipson, PhD, holds doctorates in sociology, clinical psychology, and psychoanalysis. She is a training and supervising analyst at the Institute of Contemporary Psychoanalysis in Los Angeles and is in the private practice of psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in Oakland, California. In addition to On the Shoulders of Women: The Feminization of Psychotherapy, her books include Married to the Job; Ethel Rosenberg: Beyond the Myths; and Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination (editor). She has taught at UC Berkeley, UC Santa Cruz, and NYU.
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