Cheryl Fuller

Cheryl Fuller is a Jungian psychotherapist living on the coast of Maine. She is passionately interested in depth psychology, psychotherapy, feminism and fat studies. Her new book, The Fat Lady Sings, weaves these threads into a tapestry of personal experience, critique of psychoanalytic theory and treatment of fatness, all in the context of the war on obesity. Hers has been the life of a fat woman which naturally feeds her interest in the lived experience of fat people, the absence of such voices in discussions of weight, and in the effects of fat phobia and what she terms the cultural fat complex.

Fuller has published essays on Medea, fat politics, and embodiment. She holds a BA in Psychology from Duke University, an MA in clinical Psychology from the University of Connecticut, and a PhD in Jungian Studies from the Union Institute.

Cheryl grew up an Army brat. Having lived in many places, she happily settled in Maine in 1972 and declared herself at home. She lives with her husband, Neal Harkness and 2 cats in Belfast, Maine where she works with patients in psychotherapy, writes, reads and knits. She and Neal recently realized they cannot possibly watch everything in their Amazon, Netflix, and Acorn queues in this lifetime.