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Roberta Satow Ph.D.

About

Roberta Satow, Ph.D. is a New York based psychoanalyst, speaker and author of Doing the Right Thing: Taking Care of Your Elderly Parents Even if They Didn’t Take Care of You, Gender and Social Life and the novel:Two Sisters of Coyoacán. She is a frequent contributor to the website ThirdAge.com and is a professor emerita of the department of sociology at Brooklyn College and the City University of New York, Dr. Satow speaks and writes about issues of aging, gender, and mental health. She has been quoted in The New York Times, O, The Oprah Magazine, on ABC News and other national media platforms. She has appeared on The Diane Rehm Show, AARP, Prime Time Radio and several other NPR programs. Excerpts of the book appeared in Today’s Caregiver and Caregiver.Com. She was featured in articles in Newsweek’s Web edition, The Washington Post, Charlotte Observer, Tampa Tribune, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Dallas Morning News, and Seattle Times.

Dr. Satow gave the keynote addresses at the EAP Symposium on Diversity and Well-being for the National Defence Department of Canada, Ottawa, and the New York City Dept. of Aging White House Conference on Aging. She has also spoken at the National Caregivers Conference, the Annual Mayoral Conference on Alzheimer’s Disease, the National Conference on Family Relations Annual Conference, the Joint Conference of The National Council on the Aging and the American Society on Aging, the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Association.

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Recent Posts
Collective vs. Individual Mistrust

Is the mistrust of the government a reflection of a widespread individual problem with basic trust?

Is the mistrust of the government a reflection of a widespread individual problem with basic trust?

Living With Ambivalence About People You Love

Does feeling ambivalent about people you love make you feel guilty? Ambivalence is unavoidable. Not being able to tolerate it is a problem.

Does feeling ambivalent about people you love make you feel guilty? Ambivalence is unavoidable. Not being able to tolerate it is a problem.

What Is Acting Out?

Repetitive acting out can be an attempt to master a traumatic experience or to maintain a fragile sense of self that is based on identifying as a victim.

Repetitive acting out can be an attempt to master a traumatic experience or to maintain a fragile sense of self that is based on identifying as a victim.

Why We Repeat Painful Patterns in Relationships

Destructive patterns in relationships can be explained in various ways but they all need to be identified with insight and worked through.

Destructive patterns in relationships can be explained in various ways but they all need to be identified with insight and worked through.

Making Up After an Argument

The capacity to work through and resolve conflicts, rather than ignore or only partially work through them, is at the heart of safety and security in a relationship.

The capacity to work through and resolve conflicts, rather than ignore or only partially work through them, is at the heart of safety and security in a relationship.

Feelings vs. Actions

A Personal Perspective: Do you feel guilty, as if your feelings were actions?

A Personal Perspective: Do you feel guilty, as if your feelings were actions?

Narcissism and Self-Righteousness

The self-righteous narcissist derives his narcissistic validation and supply by maintaining himself as a morally superior person or a hero.

The self-righteous narcissist derives his narcissistic validation and supply by maintaining himself as a morally superior person or a hero.

Can Microaggressions Be Teachable Moments?

Can psychotherapy serve as a model for working through microaggressions that occur in colleges and universities?

Can psychotherapy serve as a model for working through microaggressions that occur in colleges and universities?