Love, Respect, and Being Centered Upon: Loewald’s Image of Development in Childhood and the Consulting Room

Nancy J. Chodorow, PhD is Training and Supervising Analyst at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute; a Lecturer on Psychiatry at the Cambridge Health Alliance, Harvard Medical School; and Professor Emerita of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley. Chodorow’s books include The Reproduction of Mothering (1978); Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory (1989); Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond (2004); The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture (1999); and Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice (2012). Chodorow has written extensively on Loewald and the Loewaldian tradition, and, in 2004, she suggested that Loewald, along with Erik Erikson, can be seen to have founded an American Independent tradition in psychoanalysis, which she describes as intersubjective ego psychology. Dr. Chodorow is the winner of numerous awards and recognitions. She is in private practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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