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S/HE by Jesse Green Jean Malpas draws for me what a mother once drew for him: something she called a “gender cookie cutter.” It’s a blobby gingerbread person on which various currently understood components of gender are mapped. There’s biological gender, a matter of chromosomes and genitals, indicated with a circle around the gingerbread crotch. […]

“Diaper Duty, Divided and Decided: Sign Here” In “Diaper Duty, Divided and Decided:Sign Here“, Jan Hoffman evaluates all the ways that couples spell out their relationships verbally or on paper. She interviewed Ackerman Institute’s President, Lois Braverman, on the issues couples need to deal with in a relationship. “For some couples, the question is, ‘What

“What’s So Bad About a Boy Who Wants to Wear a Dress?” People rely on gender to help understand the world, to make order out of chaos,” says Jean Malpas, who directs the Ackerman Institute’s Gender and Family Project. “It’s been a way of measuring someone’s well-being: ‘Are you adjusted? Do you fit? Or are

Lois Braverman, Ackerman Institute President, weighs in for NY1 on a study that establishes new diagnoses criteria for children on the autism spectrum.

There is no question that all families have secrets, and that many secrets can be deep, dark and painful. CBS2’s Maurice DuBois reported, sharing a secret, if done in the right way, can lead to healing and growth. CBS2 asked those with a hidden past to share their stories and the ways that they exposed

Ackerman’s President and CEO, Lois Braverman, appears on Fox’s “Good Day Street Talk” to discuss how medical and emotional struggles can impact a family and how to overcome them.

Secrets are relational. They are shaped, kept, opened and dissolved in social contexts. From couples, siblings, parents and children to churches, corporations and governments, secrets shape our relationships through their profound geometry of who knows and who doesn’t know. Dr. Evan Imber-Black, Director of  the Families and Health Project at the Ackerman Institute for the

“How to Make Peace With Your Sibling” by Dr. Evan Imber-Black Evan Imber-Black, Ph.D., LMFT, Director of the Center for Families and Health at the Ackerman Institute for the Family, discusses how to make peace and enjoy a happier, healthier relationship with your sibling in this article for Next Avenue. Dr. Imber-Black addresses the ways