Jeanne Safer (born 1947 in Cincinnati, Ohio) is an American psychoanalyst and psychotherapist who has written seven popular books on subjects including living with an abnormal sibling, choosing not to have children, and the many vicissitudes of love.
Safer has been a psychoanalyst and psychotherapist in private practice since 1974, and taught Clinical Assessment and Dream Interpretation for many years.
She began writing professionally in her mid-forties, and published her first book, Beyond Motherhood: Choosing a Life Without Children, in 1996.
Safer's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, and other publications.
The New York Times Book Review called hers "a deeply intelligent, fully informed, and thoroughly welcome voice.