Alyce Faye Eichelberger Cleese (; born October 28, 1944) is an American

psychotherapist Psychotherapy (also psychological therapy, talk therapy, or talking therapy) is the use of Psychology, psychological methods, particularly when based on regular Conversation, personal interaction, to help a person change behavior, increase hap ...

, author, and

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host. She was married to golfer

Dave Eichelberger Martin Davis Eichelberger Jr. (born September 3, 1943) is an American professional golfer who has won several tournaments at both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour levels. Early life and amateur career Eichelberger was born in Waco, Texas. H ...

and later to actor-comedian

John Cleese John Marwood Cleese ( ; born 27 October 1939) is an English actor, comedian, screenwriter, producer, and Television presenter, presenter. Emerging from the Footlights, Cambridge Footlights in the 1960s, he first achieved success at the Edinbur ...

Education

McBride received her

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from

Oklahoma State University Oklahoma State University (informally Oklahoma State or OSU) is a public land-grant research university in Stillwater, Oklahoma, United States. The university was established in 1890 under the legislation of the Morrill Act. Originally known ...

in 1966. While at Oklahoma State, she served as "queen" of

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before it was transformed from a women's

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into its current role as the site of the university's college of education. She continued her studies at

Baylor University Baylor University is a Private university, private Baptist research university in Waco, Texas, United States. It was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Te ...

, earning

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s in

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and in vocational and educational counseling. She then moved to

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, where she studied the

psychoanalysis PsychoanalysisFrom Greek language, Greek: and is a set of theories and techniques of research to discover unconscious mind, unconscious processes and their influence on conscious mind, conscious thought, emotion and behaviour. Based on The Inte ...

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under

Anna Freud Anna Freud CBE ( ; ; 3 December 1895 – 9 October 1982) was a British psychoanalyst of Austrian Jewish descent. She was born in Vienna, the sixth and youngest child of Sigmund Freud and Martha Bernays. She followed the path of her father a ...

, working with disturbed children from

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backgrounds at The Hampstead Clinic (established by Freud in 1952), and receiving a postgraduate qualification, the Diploma in the Maladjusted Child, from the

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Career

Eichelberger worked as a

for more than three decades. She is the co-author (with Brian Bates) of ''How to Manage Your Mother: Understanding the Most Difficult, Complicated, and Fascinating Relationship in Your Life'' and she sits on the board of trustees of the

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. She is on the American board of the National Theatre for London and the board of the Shakespeare Society for New York. She is a visiting senior tutor at Massachusetts General Hospital.

Honors

She was honored by

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for her work in psychotherapy, and was inducted into the Oklahoma State University College of Education hall of fame in 2007.

Marriage to John Cleese and divorce

After divorcing Dave Eichelberger (with whom she had two sons), she met actor

in 1990 and they married in 1992. They divorced in 2008, though details of the $20million divorce settlement only became public knowledge in August 2009. She was represented by Fiona Shackleton.

References

External links

Eichelberger
on UCTV as part of the Henry A. Schimberg Endowment in Ethics & Enterprise Lecture Series. {{DEFAULTSORT:Cleese, Alyce 1944 births 20th-century American women scientists 20th-century American women writers 20th-century American psychologists 21st-century American women scientists 21st-century American women writers 21st-century American psychologists Alumni of the UCL Institute of Education American expatriates in England American psychology writers American psychotherapists American talk radio hosts Living people Oklahoma State University alumni People from Frederick, Oklahoma Radio personalities from Oklahoma