What Can a Woman Know? Subjectification, Desire, Perversion, and Possibility

Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., A.B.P.P., is a staff psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis (CCP), Universidad de Monterrey (UDEM), and Harvard Medical School. A contributing editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society, she is actively engaged in mentoring and promoting socially relevant research. Research interests include creativity, psychosis, resilience, reflective function, and the intergenerational transmission of trauma. Marilyn Charles is also an artist, a poet, and a writer. Books: Patterns; Constructing Realities; Learning from Experience; Working with Trauma; and Psychoanalysis and Literature. Edited volumes: Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin); Women and Psychosis and Women and The Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown); and The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education (with Jill Bellinson).
CONTACT Marilyn Charles, Ph.D., A.B.P.P. Austen Riggs Center 150 View Drive, Richmond, MA 01254, USA.