Ellyn Kaschak


Ellyn Kaschak, is an American clinical psychologist and one of the founders of the field of feminist psychology, which she has practiced and taught since 1972. Her many publications, including Engendered Lives: A New Psychology of Women's Experience, and Sight Unseen: Gender and Race through Blind Eyes, have helped define the field. She was the editor of the academic journal, Women & Therapy. for twenty years.

Education

Ellyn Kaschak was born in Brooklyn, New York and graduated from Harpur College of the State University of New York with a B.A. in Russian language and literature. She gained her M.A. from George Washington University in 1968, and in 1974, she received a Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the Ohio State University. Kaschak also completed an internship at the Palo Alto Veterans Administration Hospital.

Career

Kaschak has been Professor of Psychology at San Jose State University since 1974 and is currently Professor Emerita. At San Jose State University, she has served as Chairperson of the graduate program in Marriage, Family and Child Counseling and Director of the University’s Family Counseling Service.
Dr. Kaschak has also taught at Universidad Nacional and The United Nations University for Peace in Costa Rica, where she currently lives. She is fluent in English and Spanish, as well as Russian and French. She is the founder of the Ellyn Uram Kaschak Institute for Social Justice for Women and Girls at SUNY at Binghamton.
Kaschak has served as the Chair of the Feminist Therapy Institute, the Committee on Women in Psychology and the Committee on Sexual and Gender Diversity of the American Psychological Association and is a Fellow of Division 35, Division 12, Division 44, Division 45, and Division 52 of the APA.

Awards

She has been the recipient of the Heritage Award and the Carolyn Wood Sherif Award of Division 35; The Distinguished Leader Award of the Committee on Women in Psychology; the Denmark-Reuder Award of the Division on International Psychology; the Distinguished Career Award of the Association for Women in Psychology, and the Feminist Therapy Institute Award for Outstanding Contribution to Feminist Psychology.

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