Our guest this episode is Dr. Karyne Messina. Dr. Messina is a psychologist and child, adolescent and adult psychoanalyst. In addition to maintaining a full-time private practice in Chevy Chase, Maryland, she is on the medical staff of Suburban Hospital in Bethesda, Maryland which is part of Johns Hopkins Medicine. She is a podcast host for the New Books Network and chair of the Department of Psychoanalytic Education’s (DPE) Scholarship and Writing section which is part of the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsA).

Today she discusses her new book, Barbie & the great American Identity Crisis.

Taking her viewing of the recent Greta Gerwig film Barbie, Dr. Messina takes the reader on a journey, reflecting on how Barbie as a phenomenon has shaped the American social fabric.  She covers such topics as:    
--The implications of Barbie for feminism     
--Social and gender roles    
--What Barbie might experience through a course of psychoanalysis     
--The effects of Racism & Patriarchy on the course of environmental issues·     
--The global consequences of all of the above

Join us for an engaging conversation to learn about the development of this doll and it’s implications and effects on society at large.    

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