Colette Dowling

Colette Dowling in 1989

Colette Dowling (born c. 1938) is an American writer best known for her 1981 book The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, which was a New York Times best-seller.[1] She has a psychotherapy practice in New York.[2]

Bibliography

• The Skin Game, 1971[3]
• How to Love a Member of the Opposite Sex: a Memoir, 1976[4]
• The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, 1981[5]
• Perfect Women: Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform, 1988[6]
• You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction, 1991[7]
• Red Hot Mamas: Coming Into Our Own at Fifty, 1996[8]
• Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage their Financial Security, 1998[9]
• The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality, 2000[10]

Personal life

Colette Dowling was raised in Baltimore and got a BA from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., 1958.[1] Dowling has published eight books, including The Cinderella Complex, an international best-seller translated into 23 languages. She has written essays and articles for The New York Times Magazine, New York, Harpers, and Esquire.

In 2004, Dowling graduated with a master's degree in clinical social work from The Smith College School for Social Work. Following that, she entered training in psychoanalysis at the Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy in New York, receiving her certificate in psychoanalysis in 2009. She works as a psychotherapist in private practice in Manhattan, and continues to write. Her office is in the Flatiron district. [11]

External links

• Official website dead link

References

1. Witchel, Alex (4 June 1998). "AT HOME WITH: Colette Dowling; Our Finances, Ourselves". The New York Times.
2. "Colette Dowling". LinkedIn.
3. The skin game. OCLC 137260 – via worldcat.org.
4. How to love a member of the opposite sex: a memoir. OCLC 2202471 – via worldcat.org.
5. The Cinderella complex: women's hidden fear of independence. OCLC 7277066 – via worldcat.org.
6. Perfect women: hidden fears of inadequacy and the drive to perform. OCLC 18222660 – via worldcat.org.
7. You mean I don't have to feel this way?: new help for depression, anxiety, and addiction. OCLC 24011332 – via worldcat.org.
8. Red hot mamas: coming into our own at fifty. OCLC 32969319 – via worldcat.org.
9. Maxing out: why women sabotage their financial security. OCLC 38043037 – via worldcat.org.
10. The frailty myth: women approaching physical equality. OCLC 43599153 – via worldcat.org.
11. "Many Women Yearn to Be Saved, Just Like Cinderella, Argues Colette Dowling". People.