Rebecca Coleman Curtis

Rebecca Coleman Curtis is an American author, psychologist, and psychoanalyst.

Curtis has written extensively on the topics of Theories of Therapeutic Action, Creativity, Unconscious Processes, the Self, Self-Defeating Behaviors, Gender and Race.

Also a writer of poetry and fiction, Curtis teaches at the Derner Institute, Adelphi University, and the W. A.

A native of New Orleans, La., she attended Benjamin Franklin Senior High School and Tulane University.

Rebecca Coleman Curtis obtained a Ph.D. in social psychology in 1973 from Columbia University, and subsequently a degree in clinical psychology from Adelphi University.