Marilyn Charles

Marilyn Charles, PhD, ABPP, is a psychologist on staff at the Austen Riggs Center and a psychoanalyst in private practice in Stockbridge, MA who is affiliated with Harvard University, Boston Graduate School of Psychoanalysis, and the University of Monterrey. She is a Contributing Editor of Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society, and serves on the editorial boards of a number of psychoanalytic journals. As the Co-Chair of the Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society (APCS) and past president of Division 39, she is actively engaged in mentoring and promoting community involvement for those in the helping professions and supports psychoanalytic training, outreach, and research initiatives. An artist and poet, her research focuses on creativity, psychosis, and resilience. Dr. Charles has presented her work nationally and internationally, publishing over 100 articles and book chapters as well as six books: Patterns: Building Blocks of Experience (2002), Constructing Realities: Transformations Through Myth and Metaphor (2004), Learning from Experience: A Guidebook for Clinicians (2004), Working with Trauma: Lessons from Bion and Lacan (2012), Psychoanalysis and Literature: The Stories We Live (2015), Introduction to Contemporary Psychoanalysis: Defining Terms and Building Bridges (2017), and an edited volume with co-author Michael O’Loughlin: Fragments of Trauma and the Social Production of Suffering (2014). She is currently working on two edited volumes: Women and Psychosis (with Marie Hansen); and Building Bridges: The Importance of Play in Early Years Education (with Jill Bellinson). She may be contacted at .