Marilyn Charles

Marilyn Charles is a psychoanalyst, writer, lecturer and 2014-2015 President of the American Psychological Association's Division 39 (Psychoanalysis).^[1] Marilyn Charles has published articles and books on numerous topics, including trauma, Jacques Lacan, Wilfred Bion, creativity, and madness. She is on the staff at Austen Riggs Center, a co-chair of the Division 39 Early Career Committee,^[2] and a co-chair of the Association for Psychoanalysis, Society and Culture. She is a contributing editor of APSC's journal, Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, which is published quarterly by Palgrave Macmillan. Marilyn is also a member of the Humanities and Psychoanalysis Committee.^[3] 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.”^[4]

Selected publications

• Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience^[5]
• Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor^[6]
• Learning from Experience: a Guidebook for Clinicians^[7]
• Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan^[8]
• Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering^[9]
• The Stories We Live: Life, Literature, and Psychoanalysis^[10]

References

1. "Div. 39 President". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
2. "Div. 39 newsletter InSight, Dec. 2012". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
3. Orfanos, S.D. (2013). "Birth of the Committee on Humanities and Psychoanalysis". DIVISION/Review. Division of Psychoanalysis (39) of the American Psychological Association. 7: 46.
4. "Marilyn Charles receives award for leadership". Retrieved 2015-05-19.
5. Charles, Marilyn (2002). Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience. Analytic Press. ISBN 978-0881633726.
6. Charles, Marilyn (2004). Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth. Rodopi. ISBN 978-9042018716.
7. Charles, Marilyn (2004). Learning from Experience: a Guidebook for Clinicians. Analytic Press. ISBN 978-0881634105.
8. Charles, Marilyn (2012). Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan. Jason Aronson. ISBN 978-0765710062.
9. Charles, Marilyn; O'Loughlin, Michael (2014). Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-4422-3185-6.
10. Charles, Marilyn (2015). The Stories We Live: Life, Literature, and Psychoanalysis. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1442231832.