Colette Dowling
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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.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1998/06/04/garden/at-home-with-colette-dowling-our-finances-ourselves.html|title = AT HOME WITH: Colette Dowling; Our Finances, Ourselves|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 4 June 1998|last1 = Witchel|first1 = Alex}} She has a psychotherapy practice in New York.{{cite web |url=https://www.linkedin.com/in/colettedowling |title=Colette Dowling |website=LinkedIn}}
Bibliography
- The Skin Game, 1971{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/137260|title=The skin game|via=worldcat.org|oclc=137260}}
- How to Love a Member of the Opposite Sex: a Memoir, 1976{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/2202471|title=How to love a member of the opposite sex: a memoir|via=worldcat.org|oclc=2202471}}
- The Cinderella Complex: Women's Hidden Fear of Independence, 1981{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/7277066|title=The Cinderella complex: women's hidden fear of independence|via=worldcat.org|oclc=7277066}}
- Perfect Women: Hidden Fears of Inadequacy and the Drive to Perform, 1988{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/18222660|title=Perfect women: hidden fears of inadequacy and the drive to perform|via=worldcat.org|oclc=18222660}}
- You Mean I Don't Have to Feel This Way?: New Help for Depression, Anxiety, and Addiction, 1991{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/24011332|title=You mean I don't have to feel this way?: new help for depression, anxiety, and addiction|via=worldcat.org|oclc=24011332}}
- Red Hot Mamas: Coming Into Our Own at Fifty, 1996{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/32969319|title=Red hot mamas: coming into our own at fifty|via=worldcat.org|oclc=32969319}}
- Maxing Out: Why Women Sabotage their Financial Security, 1998{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/38043037|title=Maxing out: why women sabotage their financial security|via=worldcat.org|oclc=38043037}}
- The Frailty Myth: Women Approaching Physical Equality, 2000{{cite book|url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43599153|title=The frailty myth: women approaching physical equality|via=worldcat.org|oclc=43599153}}
Personal life
Colette Dowling was raised in Baltimore and got a BA from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., 1958.
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.
External links
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Category:20th-century American writers
Category:20th-century American women writers
Category:21st-century American writers
Category:21st-century American women writers