Phyllis Greenacre (3 May 1894 – 24 October 1989) was an American psychoanalyst and physician who was a supervising and training analyst at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute.
[2] Meyer commissioned her in 1924 to investigate the work of psychiatrist Henry Cotton, who used experimental surgery on his patients to find new ways to cure mental illnesses.
[4] In an early publication from 1939, Greenacre explored the role of a severe sense of (unconscious) guilt in fueling surgical addiction.
[6] In the fifties, a study of fetishism in relation to body image launched her at fifty-nine into a two-decade long exploration of aggression, creativity and early childhood development.
[9] Greenacre highlighted the voyeuristic elements in the writing of Lewis Carroll,[10] as well as distortions of body image with respect to Lemuel Gulliver.