- Mardy S. Ireland
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Mardy S. Ireland is an author, and psychoanalyst, who practices in Raleigh, NC. Previously she practiced in Berkeley, CA.
She is a founding member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, and was a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. In 1993, she wrote a landmark book on three types of women: mothers, child-less, and child-free. Acknowledging the distinction child-free became critical as a legitimate choice for women. The work was the subsequent subject of a doctoral thesis.[1] and
Publications
- The Art of the Subject - Between Necessary Illusion and Speakable Desire in the Analytic Encounter by Mardy S. Ireland. New York : Other Press, 2003. ISBN 9781590510339 [2]
- Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity by Mardy S. Ireland. New York : Guilford Press, 1993 ISBN 9780898620160 [3]
--Personal LIfe--
Mardy Ireland has been married twice and openly lived with a female partner in Hawaii, and was a partner of Teri Quatman in the Bay Area for many years, whom she thanked in her most recent book.
References
Categories:- Living people
- Psychoanalysts
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