Our Expanding Purview: The Explosion of Interest in the Concept of Emerging Adulthood as a New Developmental Phase

Training and Supervising Analyst at Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research and at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute. She served as Director of the Child Division at Columbia for 15 years. She is Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian, Columbia and Adjunct Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at New York Presbyterian, Cornell. She has co-authored two books on normal development, one on emerging adulthood, one on play therapy, and the Chapter on Normal Development for APPI’s Textbook of Psychiatry, all with Pamela Meersand. In addition, she wrote the chapter on Childhood Experience in the Adult World for APPI’s Textbook of Psychoanalysis (3^rd edition) and The Origins and Evolution of Ego Psychology in North America for APPI’s Textbook of Psychoanalysis (3^rd edition). She has published papers on development, play, ADHD, and emerging adulthood.