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Nancy Rappaport is an American board certified child and adolescent psychiatrist. She serves as an associate professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is the attending child and adolescent psychiatrist at Cambridge Health Alliance a Harvard teaching affiliate, where she also serves as director of school-based programs. She has consulted for Cambridge Public Schools for nearly two decades, and oversees the (Teen Health Center ) at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School. Rappaport blogs often for the Huffington Post, and is the author of a memoir, "(In Her Wake: A Child Psychiatrist Explores the Mystery of Her Mother's Suicide )" (Basic Books, 2009) and "“(The Behavior Code: A Practical Guide to Understanding and Teaching the Most Challenging Students )," co-authored with behavior analyst Jessica Minahan. Rappaport lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts. ==Personal background== Rappaport was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to an influential family. Her father, Jerome, is a prominent Boston developer. Her early life was shaped by the devastating suicide of her mother when Rappaport was only four years old. Rappaport’s mother, Nancy, overdosed on sleeping pills after a contentious divorce and losing a child custody battle in 1963. Being the youngest of six siblings, Rappaport was kept in the dark about the facts of her mother's suicide when she was growing up. Rappaport has said that she has only one memory of her mother, standing in the hot sun with her, holding hands. It was not until Rappaport birthed her first daughter that she began longing to understand her mother’s suicide and began investigating her life. She was given her mother’s journals and a 400-page roman à clef written by her mother that provided some insight. She began writing "In Her Wake" in the middle of the night while her daughter slept and published it in 2009. The memoir was awarded the Julia Ward Howe Book Award by the Boston Authors Club in 2010.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.bostonauthorsclub.org/awards.html )〕 Rappaport has stated in interviews: “As a child psychiatrist I wanted to explore what may have happened to my mother as she was growing up that could have made her vulnerable to depression. I wanted to see if there were any clues about how my mother came to see suicide as the only viable option, and how she came to believe that she was expendable.”〔 She has three children with architect Colin Flavin. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Nancy Rappaport」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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