Mardy S. Ireland is an author and psychoanalyst, who practices in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously she practiced and taught in Berkeley, California.
Mardy S. Ireland | |
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Born | Merle Sanders Ireland NC |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Duke University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
Thesis | A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (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 | |
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Born | North Carolina, U.S. | January 31, 1948
Occupation(s) | Psychologist, PhD. |
Years active | 1977–present |
Ireland 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, Ireland wrote "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 North Carolina, she became involved with and was interviewed about the Peaceful Schools Project regarding school bullying. [1]
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