Curriculum Vitae (through 1999)

OFFICE ADDRESS
Jonathan Edwards College
Yale University
68 High Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06520

OFFICE PHONE
(203) 432-7586, (h) (203) 776-9197

MARITAL STATUS
Married; 3 Children

POSITIONS

• Senior Fellow, Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University
• Contributing Editor, The New Republic
• Contributing Editor, Self Magazine
• Writer in Residence, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale University
• Member, Advisory Board, American Psychiatric Press
• Member, Advisory Board, Poynter Fellowship in Journalism, Yale University

HONORS, FELLOWSHIPS AND PRIZES

• Ford Foundation Fellow, 1973-74.
  
• Nieman Fellow in Journalism (Harvard) 1975-76.
  
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1977-78.
  
• Alicia Patterson Foundation Fellow, 1978-79.
  
• Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1985-86.
  
• Grantee, The Smith Richardson Foundation, Inc., 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994.
  
• National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation, 1971. For the Article: "Brain Researcher Jose Delgado Asks, What Kind of Humans Would We Like to Construct?" New York Times, November 15, 1970.
  
• First Prize, National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation, 1974. For the Article: "A Clinic for Insomniacs." New York Times, October 21, 1973.
  
• National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation, 1977. For the Book: Body, Mind, Behavior, New Republic Press, 1976.
  
• Connecticut United Nations Award: Outstanding Connecticut Women, 1987.
  
• Connecticut Psychological Association: Certificate of Appreciation, "in recognition of her contribution to the public understanding of psychological knowledge," 1988.
  
• Certificate of Commendation, Robert T. Morse Writer's Competiton, American Psychiatric Association, 1997.

MEMBERSHIP, PROFESSIONAL GROUPS

• PEN Writer's Association
• Connecticut Society of Psychoanalytic Psychologists
• Associate Fellow, Jonathan Edwards College, Yale
• The Elizabethan Club of Yale University
• Senior Fellow, Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy at Yale

BOOKS

Body, Mind, Behavior.
New Republic Press, 1976.
Paperback edition, B.M.B., Dell Publishing Co., 1977.

Unfinished Business: Pressure Points in the Lives of Women.
Doubleday and Co., Inc., 1980.
Paperback edition, U.B., Fontana Paperbacks, 1981.
Paperback edition, U.B., Ballantine Books, 1981.
Translated into Dutch, French, Portuguese, Hebrew, German, Italian.

Intimate Partners: Patterns in Love and Marriage.
Random House, 1987.
Paperback edition, I.P., Ballantine Books, 1988.
British edition, Canadian Edition and translations into German, Hebrew, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Swedish.

Intimate Worlds: Life Inside the Family.
Random House, 1995. Paperback edition, Ballantine Books, in press.

ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

"In the Therapeutic Community the Patients are Doctors." New York Times, May 25, 1969.

"Brain Researcher, Jose Delgado Asks, What Kind of Humans Would We Like to Construct?" (ESB), New York Times, November 15, 1970. (Cover article. Winner of National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation.)

Article about Alfred Adler: "His Ideas Are Everywhere." New York Times, February 28, 1971. (Cover article.)

Article about Dr. Thomas Szasz: "Normality is a Four-Sided Triangle or A Square Circle." New York Times, October 3, 1971.

"Mental Illness is a Myth." Cosmopolitan, January 1972.

Review: The Works of D. W. Winnicott. New York Times Book Review, 1972.

"Sex Hormones and Behavior." New York Times, May 7, 1972.

Review: Five Novels about Adolescents. New York Times Book Review, 1972.

"Study of the MidLife Crisis in Males." McCalls, June, 1972.

"On Anger." Redbook, September, 1973.

Article on Jane Goodall's Work: "Goodall and Chimpanzees at Yale." New York Times, February 18, 1973.

"Clinic for Insomniacs." New York Times, October 21, 1973. (Cover article.) (First Prize, National Media Award, American Psychological Foundation.)

"Hangover."New York Times, December 30, 1973.

"The Anatomy of Fear." New York Times, June 16, 1974.

"Terror in the City." Cosmopolitan, July, 1974.

"Behavior Modification Can Change Your Life." Cosmopolitan, February, 1975.

"Tuning Down with TM." New York Times, February 9, 1975.

"Elation and Despair (Manic Depression)." Cosmopolitan, June, 1975.

"The Fetus as Guinea Pig." New York Times Magazine, October 19, 1975.

"Fetal Riddles." New York Times, November, 1975. (An article about the morality of experimentation on the living fetus.)

Review: Perversion: The Erotic Form of Hatred. The New Republic, December 6, 1975.

"Women and Suicide." Cosmopolitan, August, 1976.

"From Joy to Depression." New York Times, April 24, 1977. (Cover article.)

"Mystifying Biology of Moods." The Dallas Morning News, August 7, 1977.

"Most Likely to Succeed." New York Times Book Review, October 16, 1977.

"Conversations with Percy Qoboza." The San Francisco Chronicle, October 29, 1977.

"Lip-Licking, Leg-Crossing." New York Times Book Review, November 13, 1977.

"One Man's Passages." Psychology Today, November, 1977.

"Starving Sparrows." Psychology Today, February, 1978.

"The Human Side of the Desolate West Bank." San Francisco Chronicle, March 2, 1978.

"A Talk with the Mayor of Gaza." San Francisco Chronicle, March 20, 1978.

"Long-Running Oedipal Dramas." Psychology Today, June, 1978.

"A Message from the Kingdom of the Sick." Psychology Today, July, 1978.

"Rough Passages." New York Times Book Review, July 16, 1978.

"Birth and the Blues." APF Reporter, October, 1978. (Cover article.)

"The Couchside Thurber." Psychology Today, October, 1978.

"Femininity as Symptom." APF Reporter, December, 1978. (Cover article.)

"Be Armed with Facts." New York Times Book Review, December 31, 1978.

"The Undiscovered Country of the Depressed: A Classic Tour." Psychology Today, January, 1979.

"The More Sorrowful Sex." Psychology Today, April 1979.

"Silver Lining in the Genes." New York Times Book Review, May 6, 1979.

"Shocking the Depressed Back to Life." New York Times Magazine, June 17, 1979.

"A True Story of Loving and Dying." New York Times Book Review, March 16, 1980.

"The Promiscuous Woman." Psychology Today, July 1980.

"It's the Price They Pay for Feeling." The New Republic, August 2 & 9, 1980.

Review: Maybe by Lillian Hellman. The New Republic, August 2 & 9, 1980.

"Women Depressed–Why?" Vogue, August 1980.

"Images that Heal." Psychology Today, September 1980.

"Can Power of the Mind Relieve or Cure Cancer?" Des Moines Sunday Register, September 7, 1980.

"Hers." (A series of articles.) New York Times, December 16, 1980; December 25, 1980; January 1, 1981; January 8, 1981; January 15, 1981; January 22, 1981; January 29, 1981.

"Invitation to Surgery–When Women Say No." San Francisco Chronicle, March 5, 1981.

"The Human Touch/NIGHT THOUGHTS: Reflections of a Sex Therapist by Avodah Offit." New Republic, Vol. 185, October 14, 1981, pp. 3637.

"Sylvia Frumkin at Creedmoor." New York Times Book Review, May 2, 1982.

Review: Children Without Childhood by Marie Winn. New York Times Book Review, July 24, 1983, Vol. 7, p. 8.

Review: Intimate Strangers by Lillian B. Rubin. New Republic August 15 & 22, 1983.

Review: Cruel Contracts/The Divorce Revolution: The Unexpected Social and Economic Consequences for Women and Children in America by Lenore J. Weitzman. The New Republic, April 21, 1986.

Reviews: The New American Grandparent: A Place in the Family, A Life Apart by Andrew J. Cherlin and Frank F. Furstenberg Jr. New York Times Book Review, September 21, 1986.

Major Excerpts from Intimate Partners. The Atlantic Monthly, November and December Issues, 1986. (One, a cover article.)

"The 70's" Women's Day, October 27, 1987.

"What, Me Angry?" New York Times, April 23, 1989.

"On Marriage." Lear's, June, 1989. (A cover story on the sociology of marriage.)

"Us and Them." The Family Therapy Networker. Sept/Oct 1989. (On domestic violence.)

"The Difference Between Falling in Love and Being in Love." Self Magazine. January 1990. (This is actually an article on the neurobiology of affective states.)

"A Lesson in Writing." New Woman. March, 1990.

"The Mother & Daughter Bond." Self Magazine. May 1990. (With Susan Merrell, my daughter)

"Alexithymia." Self Magazine. July, 1990.

"Saturday Night and Sunday Morning." Sacred Heart University Review. Fall 1990/Spring 1991.

"Hair Thoughts." Self Magazine. June 1991.

Review: As the Crow Flies, Jeffrey Archer. The New York Times Book Review. June 9, 1991.

Review:Pride of Family: Four Generations of American Women of Color. by Carol Ione. The New York Times Book Review. October 13, 1991.

"The Middle of the Journey." The Family Therapy Networker. July/August 1992. (On midlife sexuality.)

"Hot Stuff: Anger and How to Handle It." Self Magazine. August, 1992.

"Secrets of Happy Families." McCall's. September, 1995.

"On Envy." Self Magazine. October, 1994.

"The Man who Disappears." Self Magazine. November, 1994. (An article about serial seducers.)

"Is Happiness a Psychological Disorder?" The New Republic. December 5, 1994.

"A Mother's Legacy." Self Magazine. August, 1995. (An article on infant-caregiver bonding.)

"Rage Against the Machine: The Mind of the Unabomber." The New Republic. June 10, 1996.

"Keeping Secrets." The New York Times Magazine. June 16, 1996. (An article about the startling decline in patient confidentiality. This article is being widely circulated by the American Psychiatric Association, and has been nominated for a major prize.)

"Grads: New Haven Diarist." The New Republic. June 17, 1996.

"Drugs That Destroy Desire." Self Magazine. December, 1996. (An article about the sexual side effects of the new generation of antidepressants, eg., Prozac, Paxil, Zoloft, etc.)