Sharon Kofman, PhD

Biography: I am a clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice since 1980 with special interests in women, couple, and family mental health issues. These include: infertility, pregnancy, postpartum disorders and pregnancy loss. I have a special interest in the issues associated with becoming a parent for individuals and couples, and their young children. I also have focused on the treatment concerns of single and gay women with anxiety, mood, work and relationship disorders, women with histories of trauma and adolescent girls and young adult women. I have taught courses on female development and gender, sexuality and psychotherapy at a number of academic institutions in New York. I also co-led a treatment support group for pregnant women which addressed the need for psychotropic medication during pregnancy at the Payne Whitney Women’s Program.

Degree

Ph.D., MPH

Title

Clinical Psychologist-Psychoanalyst

Clinical Appointments/Hospital Affiliation

The William Alanson White Institute, Certification in Psychoanalysis (1984); Clinical Psychology Program, New York University (Ph.D.,1976); Columbia University School of Public Health Policy and Management, MPH (1995); Advanced Specialization in Couple and Family Psychotherapy (NYU Postdoctoral Program, 2007-2008)

Clinical Appointments & Hospital Affiliation

Adjunct Clinical Instructor (Psychology) in Psychiatry, New York Cornell Hospital; Professional Associate, New York-Presbyterian Hospital; Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst and Faculty Member at The William Alanson White Institute: Faculty Member and Supervisor, The Parent-Infant Program of the Columbia University Psychoanalytic Center, and the Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis.

Description of Practice/Services Offered

Individual Psychotherapy (short and long-term); Couple and Family Treatment; Treatment Support Groups for Pregnant and Postpartum Women

Areas of Research

Girls’ and Women’s Mental Health Policy

Publications

Sharon Kofman and Ruth Imber, (2005) “Pregnancy” in: (ed. Sheila Brown) What Do Mothers Want? The Analytic Press
Sherry Glied and Sharon Kofman (2005) “ An Overview of Policies that Impact the Psychological Well-Being and Mental Health of Girls and Women. In: The Handbook of Girls and Women’s Psychological Health and Well-Being. Oxford University Press.
Sherry Glied and Sharon Kofman (1995) Women and Mental Health: Issues for Health Reform. The Commonwealth Fund.

Contact

330 West 58th Street. Suite 601
New York, NY 10010

Phone: (212) 247-7232
skofman@psychoanalysis.net