Robert Karen, PhD

Robert Karen, PhD, is a clinical psychologist in private practice in New York City and the award-winning author of The Forgiving Self, among other books. His cover stories on attachment and shame, both in the Atlantic, and his legendary Becoming Attached, have all been widely taught in psychology programs across the US and abroad. "Shame" was also awarded the National Psychology Award for Excellence in the Media. Dr. Karen's professional articles have appeared in Contemporary Psychoanalysis, the Psychoanalytic Quarterly, and the Psychoanalytic Review. He has also written widely for other publications, as well, including New York Magazine, the Nation, the Yale Review, the Sunday News Magazine, O, The Oprah Magazine, and Vogue, and was for several years a contributing editor of Cosmopolitan. He teaches on the faculty of the Postgraduate Program in Group Psychotherapy at Adelphi University.