Founding Scholars

Jean Baker Miller, M.D. (1927-2006) was Founding Scholar and Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute at the Stone Center, Wellesley College, and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Boston University School of Medicine.

She wrote Toward a New Psychology of Women, co-authored The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life, and Women's Growth in Connection. She edited Psychoanalysis and Women. She was the author of many Works in Progress, published by the Stone Center at Wellesley College, as well as numerous articles on depression, dreams, and the psychology of women.

A practicing psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, she is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, The American College of Psychiatrists, American Orthopsychiatric Association, American Academy of Psychoanalysis, and was a member of the board of trustees of the last two. Read more...

Judith V. Jordan, Ph.D. is a Founding Scholar and the current Director of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute and the Co-Director of the Working Connections Project. She is an Attending Psychologist at McLean Hospital and Assistant Professor of Psychology at the Harvard Medical School. She is the recipient of the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Women's Studies Program and Women's Treatment Network at McLean Hospital and served as its first director.

She is co-author of Women's Growth in Connection, editor of Women's Growth in Diversity, co-editor of The Complexity of Connection, and has published many Works in Progress published by the Stone Center at Wellesley College.

Dr. Jordan has written, lectured, and conducted workshops nationally and internationally on the subjects of women's psychological development, empathy, mutuality, courage, shame, relational resilience, psychotherapy with women, gender issues, the mother-daughter relationship, and many other topics.

Irene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D. (1924-2000) was a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute. She was Director Emeritus of the Psychology Department, McLean Hospital and had been a senior clinician and teacher in major medical/educational institutions for more than 30 years.

She was the co-author of Women's Growth in Connection and The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life. She was the author of numerous articles and papers, including many Works in Progress published by the Stone Center at Wellesley College.

Dr. Stiver had written and spoken widely on a range of topics relating to women's development and experience: work inhibitions in women, "dependency" in relationships between women and men, therapeutic impasse, the need to reframe treatment models, and disconnection in troubled families.

Dr. Stiver passed away September 24, 2000. A scholarship fund has been established to support the continuation of Dr. Stiver's life-long commitment to the training of clinicians, students, and other professionals. In addition, a dissertation award has been established in Dr. Stiver's name to recognize outstanding efforts to advance the understanding and practice of Relational-Cultural Theory.

Janet L. Surrey, Ph.D. is a Founding Scholar of the Jean Baker Miller Training Institute and a Lecturer in Psychology at Harvard Medical School.

She is a co-author of Women's Growth in Connection and We Have to Talk. She is co-editor of Mothering Against the Odds: Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers. She is the author of numerous articles and papers, including many Works in Progress published by the Stone Center at Wellesley College.

Dr. Surrey has written and spoken widely on many topics, including gender issues, mother-daughter relationships, addictions, couples therapy, empathy, adoption, and peacemaking.