Name Mardy Ireland | Role Author | |
Institutions Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California Thesis A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (1976) Main interests Writer and psychoanalyst Major works Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity Alma mater Honolulu Community College Books Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood from Female Identity | ||
Mardy S. Ireland is an author, and psychoanalyst, who practices in Raleigh, NC. Previously she practiced and taught in Berkeley, CA.
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She is a founding member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, and was a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California. In 1993, she wrote a landmark book, "Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity", which focuses on three types of women: mothers, child-less, and child-free. Acknowledging the distinction child-free became critical as a legitimate choice for women. The work was the subsequent subject of a doctoral thesis. The New York times reviewed this book. The "academic book" had struck a chord and found broad appeal.
In NC she became involved with and was interviewed about the Peaceful Schools Project regarding school bullying. http://www.myrdctv.com/sections/community/features/community-matters/videos/school-bullying-dr-mardy-ireland-38.shtml