Women, Gender & Psychoanalysis

My Father Before Me: How Fathers & Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives is a powerful depiction of the unexplored reciprocal relationship between fathers and sons by Michael J. Diamond, Ph.D.

Dr. Diamond is a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst practicing in Los Angeles, CA.  He is currently Training and Supervising Analyst at the Los Angeles Institute for Psychoanalytic Studies, is on the Teaching and Supervising Faculty of the Wright Institute Los Angeles, and is an Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at UCLA.  He is a Fellow both of the American Psychological Association and the International Psychoanalytic Association, and is a Diplomate in Clinical Psychology of the American Board of Professional Psychology.

Michael has published extensively in professional journals and books, including over seventy articles and book chapters in the areas of fathering and masculinity, psychoanalytic gender theory, as well as on psychoanalytic technique, the treatment of early trauma and dissociation, psychotherapy, hypnosis, and group process.  He recently wrote the book, My Father Before Me: How Fathers & Sons Influence Each Other Throughout Their Lives after previously co-editing the 1995 book, Becoming A Father: Contemporary Social, Developmental, and Clinical Perspectives, and is currently on the editorial board of Studies in Gender and Sexuality: Psychoanalysis, Cultural Studies, Treatment, Research.  He has received numerous awards and prizes for his writing, teaching, and clinical work including the 2005 Distinguished Psychoanalyst of the Year from the Institute For Psychoanalytic Training and Research in New York.