Marilyn Charles is a psychoanalyst, writer, lecturer and 2014–2015 President of the

American Psychological Association The American Psychological Association (APA) is the main professional organization of psychologists in the United States, and the largest psychological association in the world. It has over 170,000 members, including scientists, educators, clin ...

's Division 39 (Psychoanalysis). Marilyn Charles has published articles and books on numerous topics, including

trauma Trauma most often refers to: *Psychological trauma, in psychology and psychiatric medicine, refers to severe mental and emotional injury caused by distressing events *Traumatic injury, sudden physical injury caused by an external force, which doe ...

Jacques Lacan Jacques Marie Émile Lacan (, ; ; 13 April 1901 – 9 September 1981) was a French psychoanalyst and psychiatrist. Described as "the most controversial psycho-analyst since Sigmund Freud, Freud", Lacan gave The Seminars of Jacques Lacan, year ...

Wilfred Bion Wilfred Ruprecht Bion (; 8 September 1897 – 8 November 1979) was an influential English psychoanalyst, who became president of the British Psychoanalytical Society from 1962 to 1965. Early life and military service Bion was born in Mathu ...

creativity Creativity is the ability to form novel and valuable Idea, ideas or works using one's imagination. Products of creativity may be intangible (e.g. an idea, scientific theory, Literature, literary work, musical composition, or joke), or a physica ...

, and

madness Madness or The Madness may refer to: Emotion and mental health * Anger, an intense emotional response to a perceived provocation, hurt or threat * Insanity, a spectrum of behaviors characterized by certain abnormal mental or behavioral patterns * ...

. She is on the staff at

Austen Riggs Center The Austen Riggs Center is a psychiatric treatment facility in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1913 as the Stockbridge Institute for the Study and Treatment of Psychoneuroses, it was renamed the Austen Fox Riggs Foundation in 1919. ...

, a co-chair of the Division 39 Early Career Committee, and a co-chair of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture. She is a contributing editor of APCS's journal, ''Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society,'' which is published quarterly by

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. Marilyn is affiliated with Harvard Medical School, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and the University of Monterrey, and is also a member of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis Committee. In 2014 Marilyn Charles received a leadership award at the 2014 APA Division 39 Spring Meeting, acknowledging her efforts in “the advancement of psychoanalytic psychology as a discipline and practice.”

Selected publications

*''Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience'' *''Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor'' *''Learning from Experience: a Guidebook for Clinicians'' *''Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan'' *''Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live'' *''Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges'' *''Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering'' *''The Importance of Play in Early Childhood Education: Psychoanalytic, Attachment, and Developmental Perspectives'' *''Women & Psychosis: Multidisciplinary Perspectives'' *''Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness''

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