She is a graduate of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute and is currently on the faculty of the Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic research and Training as well as the Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Along with Arnold Wilson, Ph.D, she was the winner of the Heinz Hartmann Award for outstanding publication in the theory or practice of psychoanalysis by a recent graduate. She is the author of Reading David: a Mother and son's Journey through the labyrinth of Dyslexia (Penguin, 2003) which won the Margot Marek Prize from the International dyslexia Association. She has published articles on the relevance of the work of Lev Vygotsky to psychoanalysis, Freud's theory of language and representation as well as clinical papers on child psychoanalysis and film.