About me
Marilyn Charles is a psychologist and psychoanalyst at the Austen Riggs Center, Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS), and Scholar of the British Psychoanalytic Council. Affiliations include the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis, Universidad de Monterrey, Harvard Medical School, and the Association for Psychosocial Studies. Marilyn is also a poet, whose work has been collected under the title Orphans of the Real: Reflections on Love and Loss (Mission Point Press), and an artist, with work featured at the George Mason University Gallery and in DellaPoettra’s Perspectives in Creativity, V. II. Research interests include creativity, metacognition, the intergenerational transmission of trauma, and the impact of devaluation on women and other marginalized groups. She is committed to mentoring future generations of psychoanalytic scholars, clinicians, and researchers. Books include Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (with Michael O’Loughlin); and Women and Psychosis and Women and the Psychosocial Construction of Madness (with Marie Brown); and Echoes of Trauma: Meaning and Identity in Psychoanalysis.
