Marian Birch

I am a retired clinical psychologist, living with my husband and various pets, in the foothills of the Olympic Mountains. Born in New York City, I’ve lived in Washington for 25 years. In addition to writing, I kayak, snowshoe, garden and play the Irish wire-strung harp.

The Age of Reason is my first novel. I am aware that the title is recycled from Jean Paul Sartre and Thomas Paine and would like you to know this is intentional.

In a past life, before my retirement, I published extensively about my work with troubled families. Here is a list of those publications:

 PUBLICATIONS

o Containment, trauma, and coherence: a Case presentation and discussion. 2012. J. of Infant, Child and Adolescent Psychotherapy 11:4 316-341

o Editor:2008. Finding Hope in Despair: Clinical Case Studies in Infant Mental Health. Zero to Three Press, Washington DC .

o Multiple Births: Emergent Identities in an Infant Mental Health Program. Infants and Young Children. 2006. (co-authors Lisa Mennet and Quen Zorrah)

o A Case of Pediatric Undernutrition. Journal of Infant,Child & Adolescent Psychotherapy, W 2001

o Talk vs. Play. Psychologist Psychoanalyst, Winter 1999

o On Attachment . The Alliance Forum, March, 2000

o Infant Parent Psychotherapy and Pediatric Undernutrition in Pediatric Undernutrition: An Interdisciplinary Approach Eds. Daniel Kessler and Peter Davies, Brookes,1998.

o In the Land of Counterpane:Travels in the Realm of Play. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child,v.52,1997

o Through a Glass Darkly: Questions About Truth and Memory. Psychoanalytic Psychology, 1997

o Who’s Holding the Environment? Issues of Parents of Traumatized Children. Newsletter, American Psychological Association, Division 39, Section on Childhood and Adolescence,1994

o The Etiology of Failure to Thrive: An Interactional Developmental Approach; with first author, Alicia F. Lieberman, in New Directions in Failure to Thrive, Ed. Dennis Drotar, Plenum, 198