Louise Janet Kaplan, o.s. Miller, (18 November 1929, New York City – 9 January 2012, New York) was an American psychologist and psychoanalyst best known for her research into childhood development. Kaplan authored seven books including the 1991 book, Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary which was made into the 1996 film Female Perversions starring Tilda Swinton.
Publications Oneness and Separateness: From Infant to Individual, 1978 Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood, 1984 The Family Romance of the Impostor-Poet Thomas Chatterton, 1987 Female Perversions: The Temptations of Emma Bovary, 1991 No Voice Is Ever Wholly Lost, 1995 Cultures of Fetishism, 2006
Death Kaplan died of pancreatic cancer on Monday, January 9, 2012, at Beth Israel Hospital.
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