Falling Man: Encounters with Catastrophic Change

Senior Staff Psychologist at the Austen Riggs Center and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge and Richmond, Mass. A poet and an artist, Marilyn has a special interest in the creative process and in factors facilitating creativity. Through her affiliations with Michigan State University and with several psychoanalytic institutes and organizations, she supports the development of younger clinicians, and as Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, actively supports applied studies. Current research projects focus on psychosis and creativity. Marilyn has presented and published her work widely, and is the author of Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience (2002), Learning From Experience: A Clinician's Guide (2004; sequel in progress), and Constructing Realities: Transformations in Myth and Metaphor.