Miller opened a private practice in New York, and then moved to
Boston in 1973. She edited
Psychoanalysis and Women: Contributions to New Theory and Therapy (1973), and then wrote
Toward a New Psychology of Women (1976), which has become a classic in its field and has been translated into twenty languages. The theory is based on clinical observations and sought to prove that "there was nothing wrong with women, but rather with the way modern culture viewed them." Following the publication of
Toward a New Psychology of Women, Miller became the first director of the Stone Center for Developmental Services and Studies at
Wellesley College, which incorporated the relational model into all aspects of the Stone Center's treatment. In 1986, she became the Director of Education for the Stone Center, where she established a group discussion program to share ideas about the relational model and published these ideas as "Working Papers" through the center. In 1991, she published her second book, ''Women's Growth in Connection: Writings from the Stone Center
, co-authored with Judith V. Jordan, Alexandra G. Kaplan, Irene P. Stiver, and Janet L. Surrey. Her third book, The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life,'' co-authored with Irene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D. was published in 1997. Miller also served as a clinical professor of psychiatry at
Boston University School of Medicine and was a faculty member at
Harvard Medical School, and practiced psychiatry at
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. She was a member of the
American College of Psychiatrists, the
American Psychiatric Association, the American Orthopsychiatric Association and the American Academy of Psychoanalysis. ==Jean Baker Miller Training Institute==