Catherine Baker-Pitts

Current

• Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Clinical Fellow, Faculty Member, and Writer at Private Practice in Philadelphia

Past

• Psychoanalyst, Writer, Faculty at Private Practice in Manhattan, NY

Education

• New York University
• The Women's Therapy Centre Institute
• Duke University

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Connections

2 connections

Industry

Mental Health Care

Websites

• My Company
• My Company

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Summary

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Specialties:

Dr. Catherine Baker-Pitts offers public lectures and private psychotherapy with a specialization in women's issues, including eating disorders, cosmetic surgery, self-harm, and trauma.

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Experience

• Psychotherapist in Private Practice, Clinical Fellow, Faculty Member, and Writer

  Private Practice in Philadelphia

  (Mental Health Care industry)

  1997 — Present (12 years )

  Represented by the Speaker's Network
  Recent and upcoming lectures offered by Dr. Baker-Pitts include:
  Myth & Meaning in a Time of Turmoil -- Under the Knife: Women and Cosmetic Surgery
  The Renfrew Center -- A feminist psychoanalytic treatment model
  Psychoanalysis, Culture, & Society Conference -- Fixed: Women and Cosmetic Surgery
  The International Association of Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy -- Two Bodies in the Room: An Intersubjective View of Objectification
  Division 39 of the American Psychological Association -- Seeing You, Seeing Me: Attachment Body Research
  Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture (upcoming, April 24, 2009 at Mount Sinai in NYC) -- Plastic Bodies, Malleable Minds
  The William Alanson White Institute -- Research presented by members of the Attachment Body Group
  The Freud Museum -- a talk in celebration of the anniversary of Susie Orbach's landmark book, Fat is a Feminist Issue (June 30, 2009 in London)

• Psychoanalyst, Writer, Faculty

  Private Practice in Manhattan, NY

  (Mental Health Care industry)

  1997 — 2008 (11 years )

  Dr. Catherine Baker-Pitts had a full-time private practice in New York City specializing in eating disorders and other women's issues. While in practice, Dr. Baker-Pitts also wrote and edited for psychoanalytic journals. She also taught Object Relations theory at NYU and at The Women's Therapy Centre Institute.

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Education

• New York University

  PhD , Clinical Social Work , 2002 — 2008

  Dr. Catherine Baker-Pitts' dissertation explored the relational reasons for and consequences of cosmetic surgery for women. She is currently expanding this work into a book. Dr. Pitts is always interested in talking with women about their surgical experiences and dilemmas.

• The Women's Therapy Centre Institute

  Psychoanalytic Certificate , Object Relations , 1999 — 2002

  Dr. Catherine Baker-Pitts is presently a member of the faculty at the Women's Therapy Centre Institute, where she teaches in the training program for psychotherapists who treat women with eating and body image problems.

  Activities and Societies:

  Two Bodies in the Room: An intersubjective view of female objectification. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 2007, 12 124-141.

• Duke University

  BA , Psychology and Women's Studies , 1991 — 1995

  Author of a student health booklet, The Perfection Trap (Duke Student Health, 1992); Building ESTEEM (Bold Print, 1996) and, later, Fed Up: College Women and Eating Problems (Gurze Books, 1999)

  Activities and Societies:

  Founding Member & President, Educational Support to Eliminate Eating Misconceptions (ESTEEM), a student activist group to help combat student eating problems.
  Consultatnt to other campuses to help implement similar grassroots programs.
  Recipient, Dora Anne Little Award -- recognizing feminist activism at Duke University
  Recipient, Human Development Research Award at Duke University
  Recipient, William Griffith Award, recognizing social leadership at Duke University

Additional Information

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Websites:

• My Company
• My Company

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Groups:

Faculty at The Women's Therapy Centre Institute

Catherine Baker-Pitts’s Honors:

Founding Member, National Eating Disorders Association
Editorial Board Member, Eating Disorders Journal (as well as Book Review Editor 2000-2009)
Fahs Beck Research Scholar
Member, Attachment Body Group, a collaborative research team at The New School for Social Research, NYC

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