Barbara Artson

Barbara Artson is a retired psychoanalyst who calls San Francisco her home. She regularly contributes essays and reviews of films and books to professional journals. In addition to a PhD in psychology, she holds BA and MA degrees in English literature, and taught Shakespeare as a graduate student while also completing the unfinished Dickens novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood , years before the musical production on Broadway. Like Dora in Odessa, Odessa , Artson's mother stitched elastic to the...See more

Barbara Artson is a retired psychoanalyst who calls San Francisco her home. She regularly contributes essays and reviews of films and books to professional journals. In addition to a PhD in psychology, she holds BA and MA degrees in English literature, and taught Shakespeare as a graduate student while also completing the unfinished Dickens novel The Mystery of Edwin Drood , years before the musical production on Broadway. Like Dora in Odessa, Odessa , Artson's mother stitched elastic to the waistbands of women's bloomers. See less