Nancy J. Chodorow, Ph.D.
7 Meadow Way
Cambridge, MA 02138
Ph: 617-354-1200
email: [email protected]
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Brandeis University, Sociology, M.A. 1972, Ph.D., 1975
Harvard University, Social Relations/Social Anthropology, graduate study 1967-1968
London School of Economics and Political Science, Social Anthropology, graduate study
1966-1967
Radcliffe-Harvard, Social Relations/Social Anthropology, A.B. Summa cum Laude,
1966; Phi Beta Kappa 1965
Postdoctoral clinical training
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute 1985-1993; graduation 1993
University of California, Berkeley, Dept. of Psychology, 1984-86, Postdoctoral Intern
Academic appointments
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance:
Lecturer on Psychiatry, 2007-present; Visiting Professor of Psychiatry, 2005-07
University of California, Berkeley
Department of Sociology, 1989-2005 (2005, Emerita; Professor, 1989-2005;
Assoc. Prof. l986-1989)
Department of Psychology, Clinical Supervisor, 1999-2005; affiliate faculty
(thesis director, thesis reader, QE examiner), 1986-2005
Institute of Personality Assessment and Research, 1981-86, Associate Research
Sociologist
Univ. of Calif., Santa Cruz, 1974-1986, Dept. of Sociology, Lecturer-Associate Professor
Wellesley College, 1973-1974, Women's Studies, Instructor.
Analytic institute appointments
Pittsburgh Psychoanalytic Center, Geographic Rule Supervising Analyst, 2009-present
Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, Training and Supervising Analyst, 2007present; faculty 2006-present
PINE, faculty 2005-present
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, Faculty, 1994-present
Licensure, registration, and certification
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Massachusetts: Licensed Mental Health Counselor #6044, 2006-present
New York: Psychoanalyst License 000635, 2006-present
California: Research Psychoanalyst, RP43, 1993-present
American Psychoanalytic Association: Certified in Adult Psychoanalysis, 2000
Honors, prizes, honorary lectures
Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis, Michigan Psychoanalytic Institute and Society,
Detroit, March 13-19, 2011
Plenary address, American Psychoanalytic Association Meetings, New York, January
2010
Meet the Analyst: Nancy J. Chodorow. Meetings of the International Psychoanalytic
Association, Berlin, July, 2007
Traveling Woman Scholar Award, American Psychoanalytic Association, 2007
Yasmin Roberts Memorial Lecturer, Austin Riggs Center, Stockbridge, November 2006
David Raphling Memorial Lecturer, Washington, D.C. Psychoanalytic Institute, March,
2006
Center for Advanced Psychoanalytic Studies (CAPS), 2006-present
Selected contributor, Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts
Present their Work. A. Cooper, ed., 2006.
Robert S. Liebert Memorial Lecturer, Columbia Psychoanalytic Society and Association
for Psychoanalytic Medicine, October, 2004
CORST Honoree, American Psychoanalytic Association Committee on Research and
Special Training, June, 2004
L. Bryce Boyer Prize, Society for Psychological Anthropology, for The Power of
Feelings, November 2000
Plenary speaker, Meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. New York,
January, 2000
Distinguished Contribution to Women and Psychoanalysis Award. Women and Gender
Section, Division 39, American Psychological Association, April, 2000
Who’s Who in America, -in the World, -among American Women, -in Medicine and
Healthcare, -in the West, yearly since mid-1980s
Tillie K. Lubin Symposium in honor of The Reproduction of Mothering. Brandeis
University, April, 1997
The Reproduction of Mothering named in 1996 by Contemporary Sociology as one of
"Ten Most Influential Books of the Past Twenty-five Years"
First Robert Stoller Memorial Lecturer, Robert Stoller Foundation and Los Angeles
Psychoanalytic Institute and Society. October 1993
First Iichiko Prize for Cultural Study. Awarded by Editions Iichiko, Tokyo, 1991
Blazer Lecturer, University of Kentucky, April, 1990
Sociological Research Association, elected to membership, 1988
Jessie Bernard Award, American Sociological Association, for The Reproduction of
Mothering, August 1979
Fellowships and research grants
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Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Harvard University, 2001- 2002
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1995-96
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1995-96
Humanities Research Fellowship, UC Berkeley, 1991-92
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1991-92
Research Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1982-1986
Research Grant, Russell Sage Foundation, 1981-1986
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1980-1981
Affirmative Action Faculty Fellowship, U.C., Santa Cruz, 1978-1979
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend, 1978
Books
Individualizing Gender and Sexuality: Theory and Practice. New York and London:
Routledge, 2012.
The Power of Feelings: Personal Meaning in Psychoanalysis, Gender, and Culture. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1999.
L. Bryce Boyer Prize, Society for Psychological Anthropology, 2000
Translations:
German: Stuttgart, Berlin, Köln: W. Kohlhammer, 2001.
Spanish: Buenos Aires: Editorial Paidós, 2003.
Turkish: Istanbul: Metis Publications, 2007.
Femininities, Masculinities, Sexualities: Freud and Beyond. Lexington, KY: The
University Press of Kentucky, and London, UK: Free Association Books, 1994.
Translations: Italian: Milan: La Tartaruga Edizioni, 1995.
Excerpted in Anthony Elliott and Stephen Frosh, eds., Psychoanalysis and
Cultural Studies. London, Routledge, 1995; in Ken Plummer, ed., Sexualities:
Critical Assessments. London: Routledge, 2001.
Feminism and Psychoanalytic Theory. Cambridge, UK: Polity Press and New Haven,
CT: Yale University Press, 1989.
Featured in "Meet the Author" Session, American Psychoanalytic Association
Meetings, December, 1992.
Excerpted in Judith Squires and Sandra Kemp, Feminisms: An Oxford Reader.
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.
The Reproduction of Mothering. Berkeley, University of California Press, l978. 2nd
Edition, with a new Preface, 1999.
Jessie Bernard Award of Sociologists for Women in Society, A.S.A., 1979
Featured in “The Reproduction of Mothering: A Reappraisal,” symposium in
Feminism and Psychology 12, 2002. 5-53.
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Named one of "Ten Most Influential Books of the Past Twenty-five Years,"
Contemporary Sociology 25, 3, 25th Anniversary Special Issue, 1996.
Subject of special panel, American Philosophical Association Meetings,
December, 1980.
Featured in "Author Meets Critics" session, American Sociological Association
Meetings, August, 1979.
Translations:
Japanese: Tokyo: Shinyosha Ltd., 1981.
Dutch: Amsterdam: Sara, 1980, 1985.
Amsterdam: Feministische Uitgeverij Sara, 1981, 1983.
Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Nijgh & Van Ditmar, 1989, 1993.
Spanish: Barcelona: Editorial Gedisa, 1984.
German: Munich: Frauenoffensive Verlags, 1985, 1986, 1990,1994.
Swedish: Stockholm: Bokforlaget Natur och Kultur, 1988, 1989, 1995.
Portuguese: Rio de Janeiro: Editora Rosa dos Tempos, 1990.
Italian: Milan: La Tartaruga Edizioni, 1991.
Chinese: Taibei Shi: Qun xue chu ban you xian gong si, 2003.
Preface to second edition reprinted in Studies in Gender and Sexuality 1, 4, 2000:
337-348.
Excerpted in (partial list):
Yu Hai, ed., Western Social Theory: Classic and Contemporary Readings. The
Press of Fudan University (one of two women in 78 entries); Roberta Satow, ed.,
Gender and Social Life. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 2001; Karen Hansen and
Anita I. Garey, Families in the U.S.: Kinship and Domestic Politics.
Philadelphia: Temple, 1998; Rosalind Minsky, ed., Gender and Psychoanalytic
Theory. London, Routledge, 1998; Camille Roman, Suzanne Juhasz and
Cristanne Miller, eds., The Women and Language Debate: A Sourcebook. New
Brunswick, Rutgers University Press, 1994; Alison M. Jagger and Paula S.
Rothenberg, eds., Feminist Frameworks, McGraw Hill, 2nd ed., l984, 3rd ed.,
1993; Barbara Katz Rothman, ed., Encyclopedia of Childbearing, Oryx Press,
1993; Charles Lemert, ed., Social Theory: The Multicultural and Classic
Readings, 1st and 2nd eds. Boulder, CO: Westview, 1993 and 1999.
Articles in refereed journals
2010. Beyond the dyad: Individual psychology, social world. Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association 58: 207-230.
2009. A different universe: Reading Loewald through “On the therapeutic action of
psychoanalysis”. Psychoanalytic Quarterly LXXVIII: 983-1011.
2008. Introduction: The Loewaldian legacy. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic
Association 56: 1089-1096.
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2007a. Reflections on Loewald’s “Internalization, separation, mourning, and the
superego.” Psychoanalytic Quarterly LXXVI: 1135-1151.
2007b. Review Essay: James McLaughlin’s The Healer’s Bent: Solitude and Dialogue in
the Clinical Encounter. Psychoanalytic Quarterly LXXVI: 617-629.
2005. Gender on the modern-postmodern and classical-relational divide: Untangling
history and epistemology. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 53: 10971118.
2004a. Psychoanalysis and women: A personal thirty-five-year retrospect. The Annual of
Psychoanalysis XXXII: Psychoanalysis and Women: 101-129.
2004b. The American independent tradition: Loewald, Erikson, and the (possible) rise of
intersubjective ego psychology. Psychoanalytic Dialogues 14: 207-232.
2003a. From behind the couch: Uncertainty and indeterminacy in psychoanalytic theory
and practice. Common Knowledge 9: 463-487.
2003b. Les homosexualités comme formations de compromis: La complexité théorique et
clinique d’une description et d’une compréhension des homosexualités (Homosexualities
as compromise formations: Theoretical and clinical complexity in portraying and
understanding homosexualities). Revue Française de Psychanalyse 1: 41-64.
2003c. The psychoanalytic vision of Hans Loewald. International Journal of
Psychoanalysis 84: 897-913.
2003d. “Too late”: Ambivalence about motherhood, choice, and time. Journal of the
American Psychoanalytic Association 51: 1181-1198.
2002a. Born into a world at war: Listening for affect and personal meaning. American
Imago 59: 297-315.
2002b. Prejudice exposed: On Stephen Mitchell’s pioneering investigations of the
psychoanalytic treatment and mistreatment of homosexuality. Studies in Gender and
Sexuality 3, 1: 61-72.
2002c. Response and afterward: The Reproduction of Mothering: A reappraisal.
Symposium. Feminism and Psychology 12, 1: 49-53.
2000. Contribution to homophobia: Analysis of a ‘permissible’ prejudice: A Public
Forum of the American Psychoanalytic Association and the American Psychoanalytic
Foundation. Journal of Gay and Lesbian Psychotherapy 4, 1: 5-53.
1999. Commentary on Arnold Goldberg, Beyond empathy and judgment: Plenary
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address to the American Psychoanalytic Association. Journal of the American
Psychoanalytic Association 47, 2: 365-370.
1998. The enemy outside: Thoughts on the psychodynamics of extreme violence with
special attention to men and masculinity. JCPS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of
Culture and Society 3: 25-38.
Reprinted in J. K. Gardiner, ed., Masculinity Studies and Feminist Theory. New
York: Columbia University Press, 2002. Pp.235-260.
Reprinted in T. Yamamoto, E. G. Andrew, R. Chartier, and P. Rabinow, eds.,
Philosophical Designs for a Socio-Cultural Transformation: Beyond Violence and
the Modern Era. Paris: École des Hautes Études en Sciences Culturelles and
London: Rowman and Littlefield, 1998. Pp.413-426.
1996a. Reflections on the authority of the past in psychoanalytic thinking. The
Psychoanalytic Quarterly LXV: 32-51.
Translated and reprinted in J. Hardt and A. Vaihinger (hg.), Wissen und Autoritat
in Der Psychoanalytischen Beziehung. Giessen: Bibliothek der Psychoanalyse.
Psychosozial-Verlag, 1999. Pp.41-60.
1996b. Theoretical gender and clinical gender: Epistemological reflections on the
psychology of women. Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association 44: 215-23.
Supplement: Female psychology: Psychoanalytic perspectives.
1995a. Becoming a feminist foremother. Women and Therapy 17, 1/2: 141-153. Special
Issue: "Feminist Foremothers in Women's Studies, Psychology, and Mental Health"
Reprinted in P. Chesler, E. Rothblum and E. Cole, eds., Feminist Foremothers in
Women's Studies, Psychology and Mental Health. New York and London: The
Haworth Press, 1995. Pp.141-153
1995b. Gender as a personal and cultural construction. Signs 20, 3, 1995: 516-544.
Reprinted in R. B. Joeres and B. Laslett, eds., The Second Signs Reader: Feminist
Scholarship 1983-1996. Chicago & London: The University of Chicago Press,
1996. Pp.216-244. In M. Dimen and V. Goldner, eds. Gender in Psychoanalytic
Space: Between Clinic and Culture. New York: Other Press, 2002.
1995c. Multiplicities and uncertainties of gender: Commentary on Ruth Stein, “Analysis
of a case of transsexualism.” Psychoanalytic Dialogues 5, 2: 291-299.
1992. Heterosexuality as a compromise formation: Reflections on the psychoanalytic
theory of sexual development. Psychoanalysis and Contemporary Thought 15, 3: 267304.
Reprinted in Contemporary Psychoanalysis in America: Leading Analysts Present
Their Work. A.M. Cooper, ed. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press,
2006. Pp.77-108.
Translated and reprinted in J. Benjamin, ed., Ungewisser Inhalt: Beitrage zur
Feministichen Psychologie. Frankfurt: Fischer Taschenbuch, 1994.
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1989. What is the relation between psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic
psychology of women? Annual Review of Psychoanalysis, 17: 215-242.
Adapted in D. Rhode, ed., Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference. New
Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1990. Pp.115-130.
1987. Der beitrag der frauen zur psychoanalytischen bewegung und theorie ("Women's
contribution to the psychoanalytic movement and to psychoanalytic theory"). Psyche:
Zeitschrift fur Psychoanalyse und Ihre Anwendungen 41, 9: 800-831.
1986a. Histoire et vie des premieres femmes psychanalystes ("History and life histories
of early women psychoanalysts"). Psychotherapies 6, 3:165-175.
1986b. Divorce, oedipal asymmetries and the marital age gap. Psychoanalytic Review
73, 4: 606-610.
1985. Beyond drive theory: Object relations and the limits of radical individualism.
Theory and Society 14, 3: 271-319.
Translated and reprinted in E. Scheich, ed., Gender Aspects in Modern Science.
Elsevier.
1984. Contribution to an exchange: Mothering and the reproduction of power. Socialist
Review 78.
1981. Contribution to symposium, “On The Reproduction of Mothering: A
Methodological Debate,” Signs 6, 3:482-514.
1978. Mothering, object-relations, and the female oedipal configuration. Feminist
Studies 4, 1: 137-158.
1977-78. Considerations on a biosocial perspective on parenting. Berkeley Journal of
Sociology XXII, 179-197.
1976. Oedipal asymmetries and heterosexual knots. Social Problems 23, 3: 454-468.
Excerpted in J. Lorber, ed., Gender Inequality. Los Angeles, CA: Roxbury, 1998.
Pp.117-118. Reprinted in S. Cox, ed., Female Psychology: The Emerging Self.
New York: St. Martin's Press, 1981. Pp. 228-247.
Book chapters
2011. The psychoanalyst, the sociologist, and the feminist: A retrospect. In S. Gubar,
ed., True Confessions: Feminist Professors Tell Stories Out of School. New York: WW
Norton. Pp.256-269.
2004a. Beyond sexual difference: Clinical individuality and same-sex cross-generation
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relations in the creation of feminine and masculine. In Dialogues on Sexuality, Gender,
and Psychoanalysis. ed. I Matthis. London: Karnac. Pp.181-203.
2004b. The sociological eye and the psychoanalytic ear. In J.C. Alexander, G. Marx,
and C.L. Williams, eds. Self, Social Structure and Beliefs: Explorations in Sociology.
Berkeley: University of California Press. Pp.21-37.
2003. Hate, humiliation, and masculinity. In S. Varvin and V. Volkan, eds.,
Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Terrorism. London: International Psychoanalytic Press.
Pp.94-107.
2002a. From the front of the classroom to behind the couch and back again. In J.
Raphael-Leff, ed., Between Sessions & Beyond the Couch. Colchester, UK: CPS
Psychoanalytic Publications. Pp.163-165
2002b. Glass ceilings, sticky floors, and concrete walls: Internal and external barriers to
women’s work and achievement. In B. Seelig, R. Paul and C. Levy, eds., Constructing
and Deconstructing Woman’s Power. London and New York: Karnac. Pp.18-28
(Spanish translation: In A. Mariam Alizade; B. Seelig; D. Holmes, eds. Techo de
Cristal: Perspectivas Psicoanalíticas sobre las Mujeres y el Poder. Buenos Aires;
Mexico: Lumen, 2007. Pp.29-43).
2001. Melanie Klein (1882-1960). In International Encyclopedia of the Social and
Behavioral Sciences. Oxford, UK: Elsevier Science. Pp.8111-8113.
2000a. Forward to Freud’s Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality. New York: Basic
Books. Pp.vii-xviii.
(French translation: In Psychiatrie française special issue: Psychanalyse aus États-Unis
d’Amérique. 32, Octobre 2011: 162-179).
2000b. Individuals in history and history through individuals. In M. Tymoczko and N.
Blackmun, eds., Born into a World at War. Cornwall, UK: St. Jerome Publishing.
Pp.299-312.
1999a. Afterward to “Toward a relational individualism”. In S. A. Mitchell and L. Aron,
eds., Relational Psychoanalysis: the Emergence of a Tradition, vol. 1. Hillsdale, NJ: The
Analytic Press. Pp.109-129.
1999b. From subjectivity in general to subjective gender in particular. Introductory
essay on Melanie Klein’s “Mourning and its relation to manic-depressive states.” In D.
Bassin, ed., Female Sexuality: Contemporary Engagements. Northvale, NJ: Jason
Aronson. Pp.241-250.
1999c. La psychanalyse et les femmes psychanalystes. In S. de Mijolla-Mellor, ed., Les
Femmes dans L’Histoire de la Psychanalyse. Paris: L’Esprit du Temps. Pp.11-32.
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1996a. Seventies questions for thirties women: Some nineties reflections. In S.
Wilkinson, ed., Feminist Social Psychologies: International Perspectives. Berkshire,
UK: Open University Press. Pp.21-50
1993. Perspectives on the use of case studies: All it takes is one. In P.A. Cowan, D.
Field, D.Hansen, A. Skolnick and G.E. Swanson, eds., Family, Self and Society: Toward
a New Agenda for Family Research. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers, 1993.
Pp.453-462.
1991a. Freud on women. In J. Neu, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Freud,
Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press. Pp.224-248.
Translated and reprinted in Iichiko 21, 1991.
1991b. Where have all the eminent women psychoanalysts gone? Like the bubbles in
champagne, they rose to the top and disappeared. In J. Blau and N. Goodman, eds., Social
Roles and Social Institutions: Essays in Honor of Rose Laub Coser. Boulder, CO:
Westview Press. Second edition, 1995. Pp.167-194.
1987. Feminism, femininity, and Freud. In J. Rabow, M. Goldman, and G. Platt, eds.,
Advances in Psychoanalytic Sociology. Malabar, FL: Krieger. Pp.105-119.
1986a. Toward a relational individualism: The mediation of self through psychoanalysis.
In T. C. Heller, M. Sosna and D. E. Wellbery, eds., Reconstructing Individualism.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1986. Pp.197-207.
Reprinted with a new afterward in S. A. Mitchell and L. Aron, eds., Relational
Psychoanalysis: the Emergence of a Tradition. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press,
1999. Pp.109-129.
1986b. Varieties of leadership among early women psychoanalysts. In L. J. Dickstein
and C. C. Nadelson, eds., Women Physicians in Leadership Roles. Washington, DC:
American Psychiatric Press. Pp.47-54.
1982. N. J. Chodorow and S. Contratto. The fantasy of the perfect mother. In B.
Thorne, ed., with M. Yalom, Rethinking the Family: Some Feminist Questions. New
York: Longman, 1982. 2nd Edition Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1993. Pp.5471.
Translated or reprinted: in E. Berroth, W. Kitter and L. Rickels, eds. Die Kindheit
Uberleben (Surviving Childhood). Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, 2004.
Pp.13-32.; in J. Prager and M. Rustin, eds., Psychoanalytic Sociology, Volume I.
Social Theory. London: Edward Elgar, 1993. Pp. 290-307.
1979a. Gender, relation and difference in psychoanalytic perspective. In H. Eisenstein
and A. Jardine, eds., The Future of Difference. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1980. Pp. 3-19.
Reprinted in M. R. Walsh, ed., The Psychology of Women. New Haven, CT: Yale
University Press, 1987. Pp.249-264.; C. Z., ed., Essential Papers on the
Psychology of Women. New York: New York University Press, 1990. Pp.420-
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436; The Polity Reader in Gender Studies. Cambridge: Polity Press, 1994. Pp.4149; D. T. Meyer, ed., Feminist Social Thought: A Reader. New York and
London: Routledge, 1997. Pp.7-20; B. M. Clinchy and J. K. Norem, eds., The
Gender and Psychology Reader. New York: New York University Press, 1998.
Pp.383-395;
Translated: Iichiko: Journal of Intercultural and Transdisciplinary Studies, 1,
1986.
1979b. Mothering, male dominance and capitalism. In Z. Eisenstein, ed., Capitalist
Patriarchy and the Case for Socialist Feminism. New York: Monthly Review Press.
Pp.83-106.
1974. Family structure and feminine personality. In M. Z. Rosaldo and L. Lamphere,
eds., Woman, Culture and Society. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press. Pp.43-66.
Reprinted in N. Tuana and R. Tong, eds. 1995. Feminism and Philosophy:
Theory, Reinterpretation, and Application. Boulder, CO: Westview Press.
Pp.199-216; in H. P. Foley, ed., The Homeric Hymn to Demeter: Translation,
Commentary, and Interpretive Essays. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press,
1994. Pp.243-265; in L. Richardson and V. Taylor, eds., Feminist Frontiers II.
New York: McGraw-Hill, 1989, Feminist Frontiers III, 1993. Pp.82-99, and
Feminist Frontiers IV, 1997. Pp.145-157.
1971. Being and doing: A cross-cultural examination of the socialization of males and
females. In V. Gornick and B. K. Moran, eds., Woman in Sexist Society: Studies in Power
and Powerlessness. New York, New American Library 1972. Pp.259-291.
Reprinted in A. R. Sadovnik, C. H. Persell, E. A. Baumann and R. G. Mitchell,
Jr., eds., Exploring Society. New York: Harper and Row, 1987. Pp.110-124.
Interviews, media, articles, and short commentaries
2007. Nancy J. Chodorow interviewed by Donald Moss, online video interview in The
Candidate, vol.2. http://www.thecandidatejournal.org/
2005. Nancy J. Chodorow: Psychoanalyst and gender theorist. Featured interview in
Clio’s Psyche 11, 4, Special Issue: The Voice/Personal Experience and Psychology of
Women at Work and in Modern Life. P.113 and Pp.134-143
2003. From sociology to psychoanalysis: The works of Nancy J. Chodorow. By Marilyn
N. Metzl. Psychologist-Psychoanalyst 23, 1: 55-60.
2000. Commentary. The future of mothering. In Radcliffe Quarterly Winter issue: 2425.
1999. A leading gender theorist explains how feelings shape who we are: Nancy
Chodorow’s new research on personality challenges the postmodern emphasis on culture.
By Peter Monaghan. The Chronicle of Higher Education. December 10: A21.
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1999. Finding personal meaning. Tikkun Sept-Oct: 30 & 63.
1998. Nancy J. Chodorow. By Karin A. Martin, in R. Stones, ed. Key Sociological
Thinkers. London: Macmillan. Pp.230-239.
1996. Interview with Nancy J. Chodorow. Free Associations 6, 2:161-173
1992. Nancy J. Chodorow. By Ilene Philipson. In Feminism and Psychoanalysis: A
Critical Dictionary. eds. D. Chisholm, J.F. MacCannell and M. Whitford, Oxford:
Blackwell, 1992. Pp.45-47.
1992. Interview with Nancy J. Chodorow. In Opzij: Feministisch maandblad 20 Jaar
(Dutch equivalent of MS, 20th Anniversary issue), December: 24-28.
1992. Interview with Nancy J. Chodorow. In The American Psychoanalyst 26: 16-18.
1991/1992. Interview with Nancy J. Chodorow in Iichiko Quarterly, 21, 1991 and
Iichiko Intercultural, 4, 1992, Tokyo: 116-127.
1991. Contributor to E. Schuker and N. Levinson, eds., Female Psychology: An
Annotated Psychoanalytic Bibliography. Hillsdale, NJ: The Analytic Press, 1991.
Pp.605-607.
1983. Interview with Nancy J. Chodorow in Kiki Amsberg and Aafke Steenhuis. Denken
over Liefde en Macht ("Thinking over love and work"). Amsterdam: Van Gennep.
Pp.77-87.
1982. Interview with Nancy J. Chodorow. In Ms. Magazine. September: 34-36.
Reviews
2001. Hans W. Loewald. The Essential Loewald. Times Literary Supplement,
September 28.
1996. Nancy Jay, Throughout Your Generations Forever. Contemporary Sociology 25,
4: 444-445.
1979. Jack Goody, Production and Reproduction. American Journal of Sociology 85:
206-210.
1978. Ernestine Friedl, Women and Men. Signs 3: 698-700.
1977. Jean Baker Miller, Toward a New Psychology of Women. Contemporary
Sociology 6: 479-480.
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1977. Film review: “Growing up Female,” and “Sugar and Spice,” American
Anthropologist 79: 207-208.
Papers and presentations at conferences and symposia
2011. From the glory of Hera to the wrath of Achilles: Narratives of second-wave
masculinity and beyond. Invited paper, presented at Masculinity, Complex conference.
New York, October 21.
2011. Discussant of A. Ornstein, The missing tombstone: Reflections on mourning and
creativity. Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Cambridge Health Alliance, September.
2011. Analytic listening and the five senses. Panel organizer and chair. Meetings of the
American Psychoanalytic Association. San Francisco, June 11.
2010. Too late: The reproduction and non-reproduction of mothering. Invited paper.
“The Female Body—Inside and Outside” Conference. Committee on Woman and
Psychoanalysis (COWAP). Berlin, July.
2010. Beyond the dyad: Individual psychology, social world. Plenary address. Meetings
of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, January.
2009. Independent traditions and middle groups in contemporary psychoanalysis. Panel
organizer and presenter. Meetings of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
Chicago, July.
2009. Working with sex and gender in the transference. Invited paper. The Practice of
Psychotherapy: Cambridge Health Alliance Continuing Education Symposium. Boston,
May.
2009. Psychoanalytic perspectives on law and the humanities. Panelist. New Haven,
CT, Yale Law School, May 1.
2009. The therapeutic action of psychodynamic psychotherapy: What makes it
psychodynamic? Panelist. BPSI 75th Anniversary Symposium. Boston, March.
2009. Reading Loewald through “On the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.” San
Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis, March.
2009. Bending the frame and judgment calls in everyday practice. Panel Organizer and
Chair. Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, January.
2008. Reading Loewald through “On the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.” Western
New England Psychoanalytic Society, May.
2008. The Loewaldian legacy. Panel Organizer and Chair. Meetings of the American
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Psychoanalytic Association. New York, January.
2008. University forum: Psychoanalysis meets cognitive psychology and cognitive
science. Co-chair. Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York,
January.
2007. Reading Loewald through “On the therapeutic action of psychoanalysis.” Toronto
Psychoanalytic Society, October.
2007. Little Hans: Masculinity foretold. Discussant. Division 39 Meetings. Toronto,
April.
2006. CAPS-Aspen participant. Aspen, CO, August.
2006. Meet the author: James McLaughlin, The Healer’s Bent. Panelist. Meetings of
the American Psychoanalytic Association. Washington, D.C., June.
2006 . Sex, gender, and Freud. Invited paper. San Francisco Jewish Community Center
Freudfest. May 21.
2006. The woman patient and the woman analyst then and now: A conversation with
Malkah Notman, M.D. and Carol Nadelson, M.D. Symposium chair and organizer.
Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, January.
2006. Analytic conviction and analytic pluralism: Striking a balance between orthodoxy
and creativity. Case discussant and featured co-chair. American Psychoanalytic
Association. New York, January
2005. The psychology and psychobiology of menopause. Discussant. Division 39
Meetings. New York, April.
2005. The riddle of masculinity. Panel chair and organizer. Meetings of the American
Psychoanalytic Association. New York, January.
2004. Uncertainty and indeterminacy in psychoanalytic theory and practice and Creating
a physical surround in the absence of physical presence: Observations on phone
treatment. Featured lecturer, Vermont Association for Psychoanalytic Studies. Stowe,
VT, November.
2004. The question of a weltanschauung: Ethnographic observations 70 years later.
Liebert Lecture. New York, October.
2004. Why is it easy to be a feminist and a psychoanalyst but not a psychoanalyst and a
social scientist? CORST Honoree presentation. Meetings of the American
Psychoanalytic Association. San Francisco, June.
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2004. Evil, the body and the perverse: a dialogue between Mme. Janine ChasseguetSmirgel and Dr. Peter Goldberg. Panel organizer and chair. Meetings of the American
Psychoanalytic Association. San Francisco, June.
2004. Homosexualities as compromise formations and Too late: Ambivalence about
motherhood, choice, and time. Freud lecturer, Annual Melbourne Freud Conference.
Melbourne, Australia, May.
2004. Gender on the modern-postmodern cusp: Reconstructions of a classical-relational
hybrid. Division 39 Meetings. Miami, FL, March.
2004. Revenge. Panel Presentation. Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic
Association. New York, January.
2004. Art and politics: The legacy of Bloomsbury. Panel chair. Meetings of the
American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, January.
2003. Beyond sexual difference. Opening address, “Psychoanalysis, Gender and Race”
conference. Psychoanalysis Unit, University of London, November.
2002. Sexuality and gender. Participant and discussant. Committee on Women and
Psychoanalysis (COWAP) Conference. Stockholm, September.
2002. Subjectivity and its discontents. Paper presented at Sysmposium, “Why
Psychoanalysis: A Symposium on the Value of Psychoanalysis for Contemporary Life.”
Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, February.
2001. ‘Too late’: Ambivalence about motherhood, choice, and time. Paper presented at
Meetings of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Nice, France, July.
2001. Sexuality and development: Theoretical considerations and clinical examples.
Invited presentation, Annual Meetings of Regional Organization for Child and
Adolescent Psychiatry (ROCAP). Yosemite, CA, January.
2000. Meet the author: Reconsidering Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel’s Creativity and
perversion. Panelist. Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York,
December.
2000. The common ground and psychic change: A symposium in honor of Dr. Robert S.
Wallerstein. Panelist. San Francisco, October.
2000. Paradoxes of self-knowledge in psychoanalysis. Invited presentation. 5th Delphi
Symposium: “Self-Knowledge Before and After Freud.” Delphi, Greece, July.
2000. Contemporary views of bisexuality in clinical work. Panelist. All-day panel,
Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. Chicago, May.
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2000. The enemy outside: Hate, splitting, and masculinity. Paper. Meetings of Division
39, Psychoanalysis, of the American Psychological Association. San Francisco, April.
2000. Is the glass ceiling internal or external? It’s both. Invited paper, “Women and
Power” conference. Committee on Women and Psychoanalysis (COWAP). Atlanta,
February.
2000. Psychoanalytic visions and personal meaning: Why we still need one-person ego
psychologies. Plenary Address. Meetings of the American Academy of Psychoanalysis.
New York, January.
1999. Born into a world at war: Psychodynamic themes. Presidential Panel,
“Psychodynamic Ethnography.” Meetings of the American Anthropological Association.
Chicago, November.
1999. Mothering and mentoring. Panelist. Division 39 Meetings. New York, April.
1999. Loewald’s vision of subjectivity. Paper presented at “The Legacy of Hans
Loewald” Symposium. New School for Social Research, March.
1998. Homophobia: Analysis of a ‘permissible’ prejudice. Public Forum on
Homophobia, Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York,
December.
1998. Psychoanalytic visions of subjectivity. Paper presented at “The Concept of the
Individual in Psychoanalysis Today.” Symposium sponsored by San Francisco
Psychoanalytic Institute Extension Division and CPMC-California Pacific Medical
Center Department of Psychiatry. San Francisco, September 19.
1998. Psychoanalysis and women psychoanalysts. Keynote address to the conference,
“The Role of Women in the History of Psychoanalysis: Ideas, Practice and Institutions,”
Seventh Annual Meeting of the International Association for the History of
Psychoanalysis. London, July 16-18.
1997. Clinical presenter to Elizabeth Bott Spillius. Two-Day Clinical Workshop.
Meetings of the American Psychoanalytic Association. New York, December.
1997. The Reproduction of Mothering, Twenty years later. Presented at “Mothering:
Diverse Families, Diverse Theories,” a symposium in honor of The Reproduction of
Mothering. Tillie K. Lubin Symposium, Brandeis University, April.
1996. The enemy outside: Thoughts on the psychodynamics of extreme violence with
special attention to men and masculinity. Paper presented at “Civilization and Its
Enduring Discontents: Anthropology, Psychoanalysis, and Violence in the Human
Condition” Conference. Bellagio, Italy, September.
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1996. The self in the group mirror: Myths about men and women. Panelist and
presenter. Meetings of the American Group Psychotherapy Association. San Francisco,
February.
1995. Distortions in the mother-daughter relationship arising from father-daughter incest.
Discussant. Division 39 Meetings. Santa Monica, April.
1994. Reflections on personal meaning and cultural meaning. Paper presented at
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Atlanta, November.
1994. Identity and the self. Paper presented at “Erik Erikson: His Life, Work and
Legacy” Symposium. The Cambridge Hospital and Harvard Departments of Psychiatry
and Psychology, October.
1994. Gender as a personal and cultural construction. Paper. “What Does Woman
Want? New Voices” Symposium. Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, New
Haven, CT, April.
1993. Personal and cultural meaning in the case of gender. The Robert Stoller Memorial
Lecture. Los Angeles Psychoanalytic Society, Los Angeles, October.
1993. Sexual orientation and sexual response in women. Panelist. Meetings of the
American Psychoanalytic Association. San Francisco, May.
1992. Oedipal asymmetries revisited: Or, why it is difficult to generalize about how
women and men love. Paper. “How Men and Women Love,” American Psychoanalytic
Association “Seminars for Clinicians.” San Francisco, March.
1991. Invited participant “Human Capabilities: Women, Men and Equality.” World
Institute for Development Economics Research (WIDER). The United Nations
University, Helsinki, August. (19 participants, mainly philosophers, a few social
scientists).
1991. Oedipal asymmetries revisited: Or, why it is difficult to generalize about how
women and men love. Paper. “How Men and Women Love,” American Psychoanalytic
Association “Seminars for Clinicians.” New York, October.
1990. Putting race and ethnicity into the psychoanalytic feminist curriculum. Keynote
paper. University of Kentucky Conference, “Changing the Disciplines: The Impact of
Women's Studies.” April.
1989. Feminist theory. Panel organizer and Chair. Meetings of the American
Sociological Association. San Francisco, August.
1989. The relations between being a sociologist and a psychoanalyst. Roundtable co-
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organizer and co-chair. Meetings of the American Sociological Association, San
Francisco. August.
1987. Is there a relationship between the psychoanalytic psychology of women and
psychoanalytic feminism? Paper presented at Chicago Institute for Psychoanalysis
Symposium, “Contemporary Women and Psychoanalysis: Critical Questions
Reconsidered.” May.
1987. Psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic psychology of women. Paper
presented at Conference, “Theoretical Perspectives on Sexual Difference.” Stanford
University, February.
1987. Psychoanalytic feminism and the psychoanalytic psychology of women. Keynote
paper. Panelist. “Psychoanalytic Feminism and the Psychoanalysis of Women.”
Sponsored by The Group for Research on Feminism and Gender, University of
California, Berkeley, January.
1986. Women in the psychoanalytic tradition. Keynote lecture. Stanford University Jing
Lyman Lecture Series. “Psychology of Women: Theory and Therapy”, October.
1986. ‘70s questions for ‘30s women: Gender and generation in a study of early women
psychoanalysts. Paper presented at Meetings of the California State Psychological
Association. San Francisco, March.
1985. “Selfhood in life-course perspective” conference. Invited participant. Center for
Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and the Social Science Research Council.
Stanford, CA, October.
1985. Is there a feminist methodology? Paper presented. American Sociological
Association Meetings. Washington, D.C., August.
1985. “Psychoanalytic Conference”. The Menninger Foundation. Invited participant.
(16 participants: psychoanalysts and social scientists). March.
1985. The women's dialogue--US/USSR: Expectations and choices in women's lives.
Invited participant. Wingspread Conference Center. Rockefeller Foundation sponsored
roundtable of 20 American and Soviet women from professional and leadership fields.
Racine, WI, May.
1984. ‘70s Questions for ‘30s women: ‘Gender consciousness’ and ‘gender blindness’
among early women psychoanalysts and in one ‘feminist sociologist’. American
Sociological Association Meetings. San Antonio, August.
1984. Varieties of leadership among early women psychoanalysts. Paper. Meetings of
the American Psychiatric Association. Los Angeles, May.
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1984. Toward a relational individualism: The mediation of self through psychoanalysis.
Paper presented at Reconstructing Individualism Conference. Stanford University,
February.
1984. History and life histories of early women psychoanalysts. Keynote paper.
Women and Psychoanalysis: Today and Yesterday Symposium celebrating the 50th
Anniversary of the Boston Psychoanalytic Society and Institute, February.
1984. History and life histories of early women psychoanalysts. Keynote paper.
Women and Psychoanalysis: Historical and Clinical Perspectives Symposium sponsored
by the University of California, Berkeley and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute.
March.
1983. The sociology of parenting. Panel organizer and chair. American Sociological
Association Meetings. September.
1982. Radical individualism and instinctual liberation. Invited Paper. Freud and
Interpretation Symposium. Swarthmore College, April.
1980. The fantasy of the perfect mother. Paper. Meetings of the American Sociological
Association. New York, August.
1980. The sociology of parenting. Panel organizer and chair. Pacific Sociological
Association Meetings. April.
1979. Perspectives on family structure: The organization of parenting. Keynote paper.
“Children and Families in a Changing Society” Session. Sarah Lawrence College 50th
Anniversary Conference, May.
1979. Difference, relation and gender in psychoanalytic perspective. Keynote paper.
The Scholar and The Feminist VI: The Future of Difference. Conference. Barnard
College, April.
1978. Segregation by Sex Conference. Invited participant. Stanford University Center
for Research on Women, October.
1978. The reproduction of mothering. Paper presented. Woman, Culture and Society
Research Conference. University of California, Davis, April.
1977. Femininity, feminism and Freud. Keynote paper. “The Psychoanalytic
Psychology of Sigmund Freud” Symposium. University of Oregon, October.
1975. The reproduction of mothering. Presentation. American Sociological Association
Meetings. San Francisco, August.
1975. Social movements. Discussant. Pacific Sociological Association Meetings.
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Victoria, B. C., April.
1972. Family structure and feminine personality. Paper. American Anthropological
Association Meetings. Toronto, November.
Lectures and seminars, clinical visits
Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Health Alliance Department of Psychiatry, 20012002: Visiting Clinical Associate
(Participant-observation on inpatient unit and in Psychiatric Emergency Room Service;
auditor, Fundamentals of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School course)
University of Oslo, Center for Research on Women, Visiting Scholar, May-June, 1998.
Presentations:
May 27th: “The Reproduction of Mothering: A Twenty-Year Retrospective”
May 28th: “Discourse, Psychoanalysis, and Gender”
June 9th: “Theoretical Gender and Clinical Gender”
Public lectures, scientific meetings, or visiting scholar at psychoanalytic societies,
departments of psychiatry, and other clinical societies and institutes (1 or more visits):
Toronto Psychoanalytic Society
Brisbane, AU, Psychoanalytic Psychology Training Program
Auckland Technical College, Auckland, NZ, Clinical Psychology Training Program
The Austen Riggs Center, Stockbridge, MA
Texas Society for Psychoanalytic Psychology, Austin
Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East, Boston
Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society, Oslo
William Alanson White Psychoanalytic Society, NY
California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco
Western New England Psychoanalytic Society, New Haven, CT
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute/San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
Berkeley Psychotherapy Institute
Northern California Psychiatric Society Committee on Women, San Francisco
Psychiatric grand rounds (1 or more visits):
Harvard-Longwood, Boston
Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge
Children's Hospital of San Francisco
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
Herrick Hospital, Berkeley
Stanford University Hospital and Medical Center
San Mateo Hospital
Mt. Zion Hospital and Medical Center, San Francisco
Public lectures and seminars at universities and colleges (1 or more visits):
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Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study
City University of New York, Graduate Center
University of Oregon
University of Santa Clara
Stanford University
University of California, Berkeley
Occidental College
Five Colleges (Northampton-Amherst Area)
Hampshire College
Michigan State University
University of Michigan
University of California, Santa Barbara
University of California, Los Angeles
Princeton University
Haverford-Bryn Mawr-Swarthmore Colleges
Harvard University
Mt. Holyoke College
Professional activities
American Psychoanalytic Association:
Chair, Two-Day Clinical Workshop, 2007 - present
Program Committee, 2003 - present
Committee on Research and Special Training, 1999-2005
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
Chair, Admissions Committee, 2009Joint Curriculum Committee/Faculty Executive Council (elected), 2006 – 2009
San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute and Society:
Committee on Research and Special Training, 1992 – 2004 (Chair 1999 – 2004)
Curriculum Review and Development Committee, 1997-2000
Faculty Council (elected), 1996-2002
Admissions Committee, 1995-1998
Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
Visiting faculty, 2004-2005
University of California Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Consortium:
Co-Organizer (with Professors Peter Loewenberg and Robert Nemiroff), 1993
Organizing Committee, 1993 and 1994 meetings
Consultant and Chair, Student Selection Committee, 1995 meetings
Workshop co-presenter, 1996 meetings
Program Co-chair, 1997 meetings
Editorial boards
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International Journal of Psycho-Analysis. North American Book Review Editor,
2002-2007, North American Editorial Board, 1998-2007; reviewer 2007Studies in Gender and Sexuality. Associate or Consulting Editor, 1997American Imago. Consulting Editor, 2001Gender and Psychoanalysis. Founding Associate Editor, 1994-1997.
Psychoanalytic Studies. 1995-2001.
JPCS: Journal for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society. 1995-2000.
National Women's Studies Association Journal. 1988-1991.
Gender and Society. 1986-1988
Sociological Theory. 1986-1989
Psych Critique. 1984-1988
Theory and Society. 1984-1989
Signs. 1981-1989
Feminist Studies. 1978-1985
Professional memberships
American Psychoanalytic Association
International Psychoanalytic Association
Boston Psychoanalytic Institute and Society
Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis (faculty appt. 2005)
Psychoanalytic Institute of New England, East (faculty appt. 2005)
San Francisco Center for Psychoanalysis
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