Mardy S. Ireland
| Mardy S. Ireland | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Merle Sanders Ireland NC |
| Died | tbd (future) |
| Academic background | |
| Thesis title | A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration |
| Thesis year | 1976 |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California |
| Main interests | Writer and psychoanalyst |
| Notable works | Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity |
| Mardy S. Ireland | |
|---|---|
| Born |
January 31, 1960 North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Psychologist, PhD. |
| Years active | 1977–present |
Mardy S. Ireland is an author, and psychoanalyst, who practices in Raleigh, NC. Previously she practiced and taught in Berkeley, CA.
Biography
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, "Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity", which focuses on three types of women: mothers, child-less, and child-free.[1] Acknowledging the distinction child-free became critical as a legitimate choice for women. The work was the subsequent subject of a doctoral thesis.[2] The New York times reviewed this book. The "academic book" had struck a chord and found broad appeal.
In NC she became involved with and was interviewed about the Peaceful Schools Project regarding school bullying. http://www.myrdctv.com/sections/community/features/community-matters/videos/school-bullying-dr-mardy-ireland-38.shtml
Publications
- Ireland, Merle S. (1976). A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaiʻi, Honolulu. OCLC 313434249.
- Ireland, Mardy S. (1993). Reconceiving women: separating motherhood from female identity. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 9780898620160. OCLC 27225262
- Ireland, Mardy S. (2003). The art of the subject: between necessary illusion and speakable desire in the analytic encounter. New York: Other Press. ISBN 9781590510339. OCLC 51810491
- Ireland, Mardy S. (October 2004). "Phallus or penis: commentary on Cornelia St. John's paper". Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Taylor and Francis. 5 (4): 459–472. doi:10.1080/15240650509349259.
References
- ↑ Ireland, Mardy S. (1993). Reconceiving women: separating motherhood from female identity. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 9780898620160.
- ↑ Monschau, Laura Lynn (2000). Women without children: the effects of childlessness on sex-role identity, psychological well-being, and life course schemas (Ph.D. thesis). Pacific Graduate School of Psychology. OCLC 190788142.