Mary Kay O’Neil

Mary Kay O’Neil PhD, is a supervising and training psychoanalyst and a registered psychologist in private practice. Trained at the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis, she is a past director of the Canadian Institute of Psychoanalysis (Quebec English), Montreal, and former North American representative on the Board of the International Psychoanalytical Association.  Currently, she is President of North American Psychoanalytic Confederation, Vice-President of the Toronto Psychoanalytic Society Board of Directors and member of the Toronto Institute of Psychoanalysis.   

Author of The Unsung Psychoanalyst: The Quiet Influence of Ruth Easser, and Mothering Alone: A Plea for Opportunity, she co-edited six other psychoanalytic books and has contributed numerous journal articles as well as chapters and book reviews. Her research includes studies of depression, young adult development, sole-support mothers, post-termination contact, and psychoanalytic ethics.  This research has been funded by Foundations in Toronto and Montreal.