Alyce Faye Eichelberger Cleese (née McBride; born October 28, 1944) is an American psychotherapist, author, and talk radio host.
While at Oklahoma State, she served as "queen" of Willard Hall before it was transformed from a women's dormitory into its current role as the site of the university's college of education.
She then moved to London, where she studied the psychoanalysis of children under Anna Freud, working with disturbed children from disadvantaged backgrounds at The Hampstead Clinic (established by Freud in 1952), and receiving a postgraduate qualification, the Diploma in the Maladjusted Child,[1] from the University of London Institute of Education.
She is the co-author (with Brian Bates) of How to Manage Your Mother: Understanding the Most Difficult, Complicated, and Fascinating Relationship in Your Life[2] and she sits on the board of trustees of the Esalen Institute.
[1] After divorcing Dave Eichelberger (with whom she had two sons), she met actor John Cleese in 1990 and they married in 1992.