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Harriet Lerner: Profile

Harriet Lerner, Ph.D., is one of the world's most respected voices on the psychology of women and family relationships. For more than two decades, Lerner was a clinical psychologist and psychotherapist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and a faculty member of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry. She currently has a private practice in Lawrence, Kansas.

Lerner is the author of nine books, including the New York Times bestseller, The Dance of Anger. There are more than thirty foreign language editions of her work. She is an award-winning author of children's books with her sister, including the recent Franny B. Kranny, There's a Bird in Your Hair!

Her latest book is The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed or Desperate. Her much anticipated new book is, Fear & Other Uninvited Guests: Tackling the Anxiety & Fear & Shame that Keep Us from Optimal Living & Loving.

Lerner is an internationally renowned lecturer and consultant who have been published widely here and abroad, in professional journals, as well as popular magazines. She has appeared on numerous national radio and television programs including Oprah, CNN, and NPR. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Washington Post and numerous other publications. For more than a decade, her monthly advice column appeared in New Woman magazine.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Lerner did her undergraduate work at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where she received a government grant to study and pursue independent research in Delhi, India. She received her M.A. in Educational Psychology from Teacher's College of Columbia University and her Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from The City University of New York. She did her predoctoral internship at Mt. Zion Hospital in San Francisco and completed her postdoctoral training at the Menninger Clinic.

Program Topics

• About the Dance of Anger
• About the Dance of Intimacy
• About Women in Therapy
• About the Dance of Deception
• About Life Preservers

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