Name Jeanne Safer | Role Author | |
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Books The Normal One: Life, Beyond Motherhood: Choosing, The Golden Condom, Forgiving and Not Forgiving, Cain's Legacy: Liberatin | ||
Jeanne safer surviving sibling strife
Jeanne Safer (born 1947 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist who has written several popular books on subjects such as motherhood, death, and forgiveness.
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- Jeanne safer surviving sibling strife
- Tjc s up close author interviews meghan daum jeanne safer and robin rinaldi
- Career
- Personal
- Books
- References
Tjc s up close author interviews meghan daum jeanne safer and robin rinaldi
Career
Safer has been a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice since 1974, and taught Clinical Assessment and Dream Interpretation for many years. She began writing professionally in her mid-forties, and published her first book, Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children, in 1996. Safer has written six books (and contributed an essay to a seventh), two of which (Beyond Motherhood and The Normal One) were Finalists for the Books for a Better Life Award for Best Self-Improvement Books of the Year.
Safer's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other publications. The New York Times Book Review called hers "a deeply intelligent, fully informed, and thoroughly welcome voice."
Personal
Safer has a BA degree in Philosophical Psychology from the University of Chicago in Chicago, Illinois and a PhD in Psychology from The Graduate Faculty of The New School for Social Research in New York City. Safer is also a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology, American Board of Professional Psychology. She has lived and worked in New York City since 1969.
Safer and her husband, historian and political journalist Richard Brookhiser, have written together for The Washington Post, appeared on CNN, and were profiled in Life Magazine about the pleasures and perils of their politically mixed marriage. The Safers were the subjects of a segment on "The Daily Show" on "Inter-party Dating" in 2015.