Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D.

Mary-Joan Gerson, Ph.D.

Dr. Mary-Joan Gerson is a clinical psychologist, psychoanalyst and couple and family therapist on the faculty of New York University and in private practice in New York City. Dr. Gerson is the Director of the Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Therapy at the New York University Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, as well as Adjunct Clinical Professor and Supervisor in that program. She is Founding President of Section VIII, Couple and Family Therapy, of Division 39 (Psychoanalysis), as well as Co-Chair of the Committee on Psychoanalysis and Health Care for Division 39 (Psychoanalysis) of the American Psychological Association.

She is author of The Embedded Self: An Integrative Psychodynamic and Systemic Perspective on Couple and Family Therapy, published in 2009 by Routledge Psychoanalysis, an imprint of Taylor & Francis LLC. Her numerous publications have appeared in such journals as Contemporary Psychoanalysis, Psychoanalytic Psychology, The Journal of Psychotherapy Integration, Social Science and Medicine, and Family Systems Medicine. She holds a Diplomate in Family Psychology (ABPP), and is an Approved Supervisor in the American Association of Marital and Family Therapy.