Mardy S. Ireland
American psychoanalyst
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Mardy Sanders Ireland is an American author and psychoanalyst, who practices in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously, she practiced and taught in Berkeley, California.
Mardy S. Ireland | |
|---|---|
| Born | Merle Sanders Ireland North Carolina, US |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Duke University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa |
| Thesis | A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (1976) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California |
Main interests | Writer and psychoanalyst |
Notable works | Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity |
Biography
Born in North Carolina, Ireland 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, Ireland wrote "Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity", which focuses on three types of women: mothers, child-less, and child-free.[1] Acknowledging the distinction child-free became critical as a legitimate choice for women. The work was the subsequent subject of a doctoral thesis.[2] The New York Times reviewed this book. The "academic book" had struck a chord and found broad appeal.
In North Carolina, she became involved with and was interviewed about the Peaceful Schools Project regarding school bullying.[3]
Publications
- Ireland, Merle S. (1976). A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. OCLC 313434249.
- Ireland, Mardy S. (1993). Reconceiving women: separating motherhood from female identity. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 9780898620160. OCLC 27225262.[4]
- Ireland, Mardy S. (2003). The art of the subject: between necessary illusion and speakable desire in the analytic encounter. New York: Other Press. ISBN 9781590510339. OCLC 51810491.[5]
- Ireland, Mardy S. (October 2004). "Phallus or penis: commentary on Cornelia St. John's paper". Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 5 (4): 459–472. doi:10.1080/15240650509349259. S2CID 143897213.