About Harriet Lerner
Harriet Lerner, a clinical psychologist, is best known for her work on psychoanalytic ideas about family and feminist theory, and she has written many psychology books for general readers. From 1972 to 2001 she served as a staff psychologist at the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kansas, and was a faculty member and supervisor at the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry. During that period she published extensively on women’s psychology and family relationships, updating classic psychoanalytic concepts to include feminist and family‑systems viewpoints.
