![]() ![]() ![]() In 1969, she cofounded the Association for Women in Psychology. in psychology at the New School for Social Research and embarked on her career as a professor and a psychotherapist in private practice. After a traumatic marriage and divorce in Afghanistan, Chesler returned to the United States to graduate from Bard College. She credits this experience with inspiring her to become an ardent feminist. She was briefly married to him in 1961, during which time the couple lived in Afghanistan, in the capital city of Kabul, in the large, polygamous household of her father-in-law. She attended Bard College, where for two years she had a relationship with a fellow student from Afghanistan. She is known as a feminist psychologist, and is the author of thirteen books including the best-seller Women and Madness, and the recent publications The Death of Feminism and The New Anti-Semitism.Ĭhesler was born in New York to Jewish immigrants. Phyllis Chesler is a Jewish American writer, psychotherapist, and professor emerita of psychology and women's studies at the College of Staten Island (CUNY). ![]()
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