Jane Adams Ph.D.

About

Jane Adams has been researching and reporting on how American families respond to social change for over three decades. A graduate of Smith College, she studied at the Seattle Psychoanalytic Association and the Washington (DC) Psychoanalytic Foundation and has published 13 books and over 100 essays, articles and columns in national magazines and newspapers including the New York Times. Her books have been translated into several foreign languages, and been adapted for television. A popular media commentator, she has been featured on many TV and radio shows including Today, Good Morning America, the Oprah Winfrey Show and PBS. She was a founding editor of the Seattle Weekly and has been an adjunct professor at the University of Washington. From her home in Seattle, she coaches parents of adult children on how to cope, respond and communicate across generational lines when conflict frays the ties that bind. Her web site is www.janeadams.com.

Books by Jane Adams Ph.D.

Recent Posts

It's Spring Break: Do You Know Where Your Kids Are This Week?

Is spring break a rite of passage for young adults, a week of worry for parents, or a 10-day bacchanalia featuring beer, beaches, bikinis, and sunburns?

How Your New Year's Resolutions Can Serve a Larger Purpose

New Year's resolutions need a wider perspective than the personal. Consider your obligations to the wider world when you make your own.

When They Bring Someone Special Home for the Holidays

Mistletoe chronicles, or how to celebrate the season with your grown kids' new partners the way they want you to.

How to Have the Holidays You Always Wanted

Home for the holidays can be a joyful or painful event. Use the occasion to reknit the ties that bind.

Being There When They Leave

Why caring for a dying parent is a not an obligation or a duty.

Dealing with Your Feelings When Your Kids Divorce

When grown kids divorce, taking sides is inevitable. But if there are grandchildren involved, remaining neutral is the best way to help them heal.

7 Strategies to Improve Relationships with Grown Kids

Letting grown children lead their own lives and make their own choices is a loving act.

What Will Our Parents Need Most from Us as They Age?

Changes in middle-aged children's perceptions of their parents' activities of daily living needs are associated with changes in the mutuality of support in their relationship.

Is What You Do Who You Are?

Leaving the office behind doesn't always predict happiness and success in both the personal and professional domains of life.

Can Microdosing Make Your Life a Little Better?

Magic mushrooms are having a moment, out from underground and into the sunshine of scientific investigation.