Ethel Jane Spector Person Sherman Diamond (December 16, 1934 – October 16, 2012) was an American psychiatrist and psychoanalyst.
Person and Lionel Ovesey examined the etiology of transsexual people based on the developmental model of Margaret Mahler.
[6] Many of Person's books are still in active circulation including The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Psychoanalysis, which she edited along with Arnold M. Cooper and Glen O. Gabbard.
Two other research books by Ethel Person were published in the 1980s titled, Women--Sex and Sexuality, co-edited with Catharine R. Stimpson in 1980,[7] and, Passionate Attachments: Thinking About Love, co-edited with Willard Gaylin circa 1988.
She wrote Dreams of Love and Fateful Encounters: The Power of Romantic Passion, from 2006, Feeling Strong: The Achievement of Authentic Power, from 2002, The Sexual Century, from 1999, and, By Force of Fantasy: How We Make Our Lives, from 1996.