Mardy S. Ireland

Mardy S. Ireland
Born	Merle Sanders Ireland NC
Academic background
Alma mater	Duke University, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Thesis	A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (1976)
Academic work
Institutions	Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California
Main interests	Writer and psychoanalyst
Notable works	Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity

Mardy S. Ireland
Born	(1948-01-31) January 31, 1948 North Carolina, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Psychologist, PhD.
Years active	1977–present

Mardy S. Ireland is an author and psychoanalyst, who practices in Raleigh, North Carolina. Previously she practiced and taught in Berkeley, California.

Biography

Ireland is a founding member of the Lacanian School of Psychoanalysis, and was a member of the faculty at the Psychoanalytic Institute of Northern California.

In 1993, Ireland wrote "Reconceiving Women: Separating Motherhood From Female Identity", which focuses on three types of women: mothers, child-less, and child-free. Acknowledging the distinction child-free became critical as a legitimate choice for women. The work was the subsequent subject of a doctoral thesis. The New York Times reviewed this book. The "academic book" had struck a chord and found broad appeal.

In North Carolina, she became involved with and was interviewed about the Peaceful Schools Project regarding school bullying. [1]

Publications

• Ireland, Merle S. (1976). A training paradigm for imagery awareness and the investigation of concomitant personality integration (Ph.D. thesis). University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. OCLC 313434249.
• Ireland, Mardy S. (1993). Reconceiving women: separating motherhood from female identity. New York: Guilford Press. ISBN 9780898620160. OCLC 27225262.
• Ireland, Mardy S. (2003). The art of the subject: between necessary illusion and speakable desire in the analytic encounter. New York: Other Press. ISBN 9781590510339. OCLC 51810491.
• Ireland, Mardy S. (October 2004). "Phallus or penis: commentary on Cornelia St. John's paper". Studies in Gender and Sexuality. 5 (4): 459–472. doi:10.1080/15240650509349259. S2CID 143897213.