Also a writer of poetry and fiction, Curtis teaches at the Derner Institute,
Adelphi University, and the W. A. White Institute, New York, NY. She maintains a practice in
psychotherapy and
psychoanalysis in Miami, Florida, New York City, and Sag Harbor, New York. A native of
New Orleans, La., she attended Benjamin Franklin Senior High School and
Tulane University. Rebecca Coleman Curtis obtained a Ph.D. in
social psychology in 1973 from
Columbia University, and subsequently a degree in
clinical psychology from Adelphi University. She also received a certificate in psychoanalysis from the W. A. White Institute in New York City. Dr. Curtis is involved in psychology and the arts as well as the integration of psychological science and psychoanalysis. Curtis' interests are in the self-defeating behaviours of humans and how humans change over time. Her current projects analyse
eating disorders,
anxiety and
depression,
alcoholism and trauma in terms of psychotherapy and what can help in psychotherapy. She has published books on these topics, plus books on the self, psychoanalysis, psychotherapies and how humans cope with death and endings. == References ==