Orphans of the Real: Reflections on Love and Loss - Paperback

Charles, Marilyn: - 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 lived in Spain, Switzerland, and the Netherlands during her early adolescence, affording a growth-enhancing disruption to her Midwestern childhood. Exposure to diversities of culture and the musicality of languages informed her love of art, language, and literature, and her psychoanalytic interest in the aesthetic underbelly of life as lived. Her artwork was featured at the George Mason University Gallery and in her book chapter "Remembering, Repeating, and Working Through: Collage: Piecing Together the Fragments of Traumatic Memory" in DellaPiettra's Perspectives in Creativity.During her young adulthood, Marilyn lived on the Navajo Reservation. Exploring those history-rich terrains of subtle colors and nuance helped her heal from the too-much of urban existence, and informed her research interests, which include creativity, 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, and has consulted with many groups including Gunawirra, in New South Wales, and has presented her work nationally and internationally.Currently, Marilyn resides in the Berkshires with her life partner and enjoys visits to her home and gardens by her son, daughter, son-in-law, grandchildren, and cherished family and friends.