Dana Birksted-Breen, Series Editor

Dana Birksted-BreenDr Dana Birksted-Breen became General Editor of the New Library of Psychoanalysis in 2000.

Educated in Paris, Geneva and England, she is a training psychoanalyst of the British Institute of Psychoanalysis. Her main publications are The Birth of a First Child: Towards an Understanding of Femininity (Tavistock Publications,1975); Talking with Mothers (Jill Norman,1981, and Free Association Books,1989); The Gender Conundrum: Contemporary Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Femininity and Masculinity (Routledge, New Library of Psychoanalysis, 1993).

She won an international prize for her paper Phallus, Penis and Mental Space in 1995 (published in the International Journal of Psychoanalysis, 1996, vol.77, Part 4).

Dana Birksted-Breen was the Book Review Editor for the International Journal of Psychoanalysis from 1993 to 2000. She maintains a full time private practice in London.