Constance Ahrons

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Constance Ruth Ahrons (April 16, 1937 - November 29, 2021) was an American psychotherapist. She was an early advocate of collaborative divorce. [1] [2]

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Biography

Constance Ruth Ahrons was born on April 16, 1937, in Brooklyn, New York to immigrants Jacob and Estelle Ahrons. She attended Upsala College but dropped out when she married lawyer Jac Weiseman and had a baby. After reading The Feminine Mystique , she returned to Upsala and graduated in 1964. In 1967, she received her master's degree in social work from the University of Wisconsin. In 1967, she married therapist Morton Perlmutter. [1]

Ahrons received her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1973. She took a professorship in sociology at the University of Southern California in 1984. In 1996 she was the director of the Marriage and Family Therapy Training Program at USC. She taught there until 2001. [3] She is known for her research in marriage and divorce which cumulated in the book The Good Divorce. [4] In 1977 she began researching divorce which is then used in the book to champion collaborative divorce at a time when divorce was stigmatizing and coined the term "binuclear." Conservative critics saw her work as contributing to the decline of the nuclear family. [1]

Ahrons ended her life through physician-assisted suicide on November 29, 2021, after being diagnosed with lymphoma. [1]

Honors and awards

Books

Selected articles

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  2. Journal, Kelly Meyerhofer | Wisconsin State. "Constance Ahrons, former UW-Madison prof who studied divorced couples, dies". madison.com.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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