Harriet Fraad


Harriet Fraad is a feminist activist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in New York City. She has been practicing as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for 37 years. She is said to be a founding member of the Feminist movement, owed in part to her founding of the Woman's Liberation Movement in 1968. She is the founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism and specializes in writing about the intersection between economics and psychology.

Personal life

Fraad was born to a paediatrician father, Lewis M. Fraad and a housewife mother, Irma London who both had leftist sympathies. She is the wife of Marxian economist Richard D. Wolff. Wolff and Fraad have two children together. Her father worked for the Comintern in Vienna from 1932 to 1936 and was a member of the Communist Party of America from 1929 to 1957. Her maternal grandfather was Horace London, the brother and campaign manager of Meyer London. To remain an activist her entire life Fraad would contribute to works and become a founding member in movements like Second Wave women's movement. To keep updates on the Economics world she gives regular visits and talks on the , , and Women's Spaces on WBBK. The latest work she contributed to was Knowledge, Class and Economics :Marxism, Without Guarantees

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Regular guest on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff