From Both Sides of the Couch: Reflections of a Psychoanalyst, Daughter Tennis Player and Other Selves

Fern W Cohen, PhD, a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice in New York City, has long been committed to conveying in everyday language what the psychoanalytic process is about and how it works. That passion informs her teaching and supervising as well as her writing, which includes her personal take on the professional problems raised by her experience with breast cancer STORIES OF ILLNESS AND HEALING: WOMEN WRITE THEIR BODIES (Kent State University Press, in press 2007) and a prize-winning essay on the intersection of the prosaic and the professional ("Attachment is Where You Find It"). A graduate of Radcliffe College, Dr. Cohen earned her Ph.D. in School Psychology from New York University and completed her analytic training at the NYU Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanlaysis as well as the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) of which she is a member.