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Mildred Newman
Born
Mildred Rubenstein[1]: 279 

1919 or 1920
Died (aged 81)
Alma materHunter College

Mildred Newman (née Rubenstein), was an American psychologist and author known for her self-help books.

Early life

Newman's mother was from Russia,[2] and Newman grew up in Manhattan.[3] Newman gained an undergraduate degree (1940) and a master's degree (1943) from Hunter College.[4] Prior to working as a psychologist, Newman spent time studying modern dance and was an artists' model.[1]: 279  She trained as a psychoanalyst at the National Psychological Association for Psychoanalysis, which was founded by Theodor Reik.[1]: 280 [4]

Career

Newman started her psychoanalyst practice in New York City in the middle of the 1950s.[5] She realized that her patients needed a place to have positive feedback, and in 1971 she and her husband Bernard Berkowitz started a book that became How to Be Your Own Best Friend.[5] In 2018, an article in the New York Post attributed the self-help industry that followed back to this 1971 book.[5]

Newman worked with many clients, starting with Paula Prentiss,[1]: 280–281 Anthony Perkins,[1]: 283–284  George Segal, Neil Simon, Nora Ephron, and others.[6] She and her husband treated so many celebrities that they were known as "therapists of the stars".[2] She and her husband also participated in social events with her clients.[1]: 287–288 

Newman was a proponent of conversion therapy, famously treating Perkins with electroshock to supposedly "cure" his homosexuality; for this, Perkins' friend and collaborator Stephen Sondheim described her to author Mark Harris as "completely unethical and a danger to humanity."[7][8]

Personal life

Her first husband was Philip Newman, though they later divorced.[when?][1]: 280  She met her second husband, Bernard Berkowitz as a teenager[2] waiting in line for a concert, and they married in 1962.[1]: 280  By 1978 they were sharing recipes in a newspaper article that was one of a series on celebrity recipes.[9] Newman died of a pulmonary embolism on November 6, 2001, aged 81.[3][4]

Selected publications

  • Newman, Mildred; Stern, E. Mark (1964). "The Age Game". Psychoanalytic Review. 51B (2): 63–74. Retrieved 2022-09-05.[10]
  • Newman, Mildred; Berkowitz, Bernard (1974). How to be your own best friend; a conversation with two psychoanalysts. Jean Owen ([1st U.S. ed.] ed.). New York: Ballantine Books.
    OCLC 1338573.[11]
  • Newman, Mildred (2016). How to be awake and alive. Bernard Berkowitz. New York, NY: Random House Publishing Group.
    OCLC 953848210.[12]
  • Newman, Mildred (1977). How to take charge of your life. Bernard Berkowitz (1st ed.). New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich.
    OCLC 2907334.[13]

References

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    ISBN 978-0-87795-998-4
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  2. ^ a b c Berman, Susan (1977-07-03). "Of marriages and families". The San Francisco Examiner. p. 276. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  3. ^ a b Oliver, Myrna (2001-11-13). "Obituary for Mildred Rubenstein Newman (Aged 81)". The Los Angeles Times. p. 13. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  4. ^ a b c Saxon, Wolfgang (November 9, 2001). "Mildred R. Newman, 81, Psychologist and Popular Author". The New York Times.
  5. ^ a b c Weisberg, Jessica (2018-04-14). "The reason Americans are obsessed with advice". New York Post. Retrieved 2022-07-19.
  6. OCLC 1330888409
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  7. OCLC 34281870.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  8. OCLC 1152495536.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link
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  9. ^ Blinn, Johna (1978-01-04). "Psychologists' specials: chicken and shrimp". The Philadelphia Inquirer. p. 21. Retrieved 2022-09-05.
  10. ^ Anthologized in
  11. ^ Reviews
  12. ^ Reviews
  13. ^ Reviews
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