Women's Rites of Passage: How to Embrace Change and Celebrate Life

Women's Rites of Passage grew out of Abigail Brenner's desire to answer some fundamental questions about the role of rites of passage in contemporary women's lives. Relying on a research study involving over 50 women, Brenner shows how women today understand the need to take responsibility for their lives and for directing their own paths, and are beginning to do so by creating their own very personal rites of passage.

Abigail Brenner, M.D. is a board certified psychiatrist in private practice in New York City. She attended New York Medical College, becoming a physician in 1977. Her internship and residency in psychiatry were completed at New York University- Bellevue Medical Center in 1981. In full-time practice for 25 years, she combined her interest in clinical work (the Bellevue adult outpatient clinic) with a private psychotherapy practice.