Mardy S. Ireland | |
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Born | Merle Sanders Ireland North Carolina, US |
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 Sanders Ireland is an American author and psychoanalyst,who practices in Raleigh,North Carolina. Previously,she practiced and taught in Berkeley,California.
Born in North Carolina,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. [3]
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