In the Press

Jazz Jennings and the Ackerman Institute for the Family’s Gender & Family Project on HuffPost Live! Click here to watch the video.

Jean Malpas, LMHC, LMFT, Director of the Ackerman Institutes Gender and Family Project, is quoted in this Daily News article discussing Transgender issues in society and the media. Click here to read the article.

We are delighted to share with a major feature published in Real Estate Weekly on Arnold Syrop’s great work designing our state-of-the-art space! Click here to read the article.

Ackerman Faculty Member and Director of the Center for Families and Health, Evan Imber-Black, Phd, explains it’s never to late to heal from a rift with a sibling, even if it dates back to childhood. Click here to read the article.

Our very own, President and CEO Lois Braverman was interviewed by Adam Bryant of the New York Times for the weekly feature, “Corner Office”.  In this interview Lois discusses the challenges of leading and managing. Click here to read the article.

“E possivel reinventar a vida a dois?”Lois Braverman, Ackerman Institute for the Family’s president, was recently interviewed by Brazil’s Globo TV on what makes relationships work and how to reinvent them over time. Watch the interview in Portuguese by clicking here.

Ackerman workshop presenter, Pauline Boss, coined the term “ambiguous loss” to describe grief that has no closure or trying to mourn those who are missing. This article addresses the Malaysian Airline catastrophe and highlights Dr. Boss as an expert on mourning the missing. “It’s against human nature not to know,” she says, “especially when we

In “Love and Its Discontents”, Mona Fishbane, Ackerman workshop presenter, discusses early love and love over a lifetime and how it needs to be earned every day. “The thrill of early love, abundant in dopamine, testosterone, and oxytocin, makes us excited and hopeful. The challenges of long-term love emerge over a lifetime (if we are