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{{Draft article|Susan Mailer}}
{{short description|Chilean psychoanalyst, educator, and writer.}}
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'''Susan Mailer''' (born August 28, 1949) is a psychoanalyst, writer, and academic who is the first daughter of American writer [[Norman Mailer]] and his frist wife Beatrice Silverman. She is a practicing psychoanalyst in Chile, where she has lived since the 1980s. Her recent memoir ''In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer'' was published by Northampton House Press in 2019.

== Early life ==
Susan Mailer was born in Hollywood, CA, while her father was there writing screenplays.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=121}} Less than two years later, Norman Mailer and Beatrice Silverman divorced. Susan lived for a time with Mailer's parents{{sfn|Lennon|2013|p=134}} before moving to Mexico City with her mother.{{Sfn|Mailer|2019|pp=4–5}} She spent her early years between Mexico and the U.S., becoming bilingual and bicultural which taught her "a sense of cultural colors and nuances from an early age",{{sfn|Lennon|2019|}} but made her also feel like an outsider in both.{{sfn|Mailer|2019|p=18}}

Undergrad at Barnard College in the late-60s; graduated in 1971.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://susanmailer.com/about/ |title=About Susan |author=<!--none identified--> |date=April 16, 2019 |website=Susan Mailer |publisher= |access-date=2019-11-21 |quote= |ref=harv }}</ref>

Completed her graduate work in Mexico, and became a psychoanalyst in 1992.{{sfn|Funke|2019|}}

== Life with Norman Mailer ==
Mailer's first book, ''In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer'', is a memoir centered around her relationship with her famous father Norman Mailer. Inspired by a vignette she wrote in 2013, Mailer decided to write the memoir from a daughter's perspective of her father — a view that no other book about Norman Mailer has taken.{{sfn|Lennon|2019|}}{{sfn|BookTrib|2019|}} Norman Mailer died in 2007, an event that Susan Mailer tells Erika Funke of WVIA, was necessary for her to begin putting her relationship with him in perspective and to pick up the writer's pen. In the same interview, Mailer discusses that while her father was still alive, the act of writing was too intimidating, but after his passing, she discovered she enjoyed uncovering the inner tapestry of her life in writing.{{sfn|Funke|2019|}} Mailer tells Mike Lennon that "writing this memoir was a second analysis for me", and it was instrumental in helping her understand her complex emotions toward her father and her mother.{{sfn|Lennon|2019|}} Writing the memoir was a way of bridging the distance between her and Norman and, she says, "bringing him back — bringing him close to me."{{sfn|Funke|2019|}}

This memoir humanizes her experiences with her father through, as critic Nicole DePolo writes, "sharp insights honed by her career as a psychoanalyst".{{sfn|DePolo|2019|}} Mailer recounts the more intense moments with her father and his public life, but also depicts the more private and personal details of their relationship.{{sfn|DePolo|2019|}} According to BookTrib, even well-known incidents, like [[Stabbing of Adele Morales by Norman Mailer|Norman's stabbing of his second wife Adele]] (know as "the Trouble"), are "given new perspective and treated with greater humanity through Susan's eyes".{{sfn|BookTrib|2019|}} Mailer credits her own 10-year clinical analysis for a deeper understanding about her relationship with her parents that led to the compassionate approach her memoir takes.{{sfn|Funke|2019|}}

Redemption and understanding.{{sfn|BookTrib|2019|}}

== Professional Life ==
While all of her other siblings went into the arts, Susan Mailer became a psychoanalyst and educator.{{sfn|Lennon|2013|pp=615–16}} Mailer has taught at [[Universidad Católica de Chile]], [[Universidad Alberto Hurtado]], and [[Universidad Diego Portales]]. She runs her own private practice in Santiago, Chile. Mailer has published in academic journals, both in Spanish and English, and co-founded the Psychoanalytic Association of Santiago. She is a member of various professional associations, like the [[International Psychoanalytic Association]] and the [[International Association for Relational Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy]]. She serves on the Executive Board of the [[Norman Mailer Society]] and has published in ''[[The Mailer Review]]''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://projectmailer.net/pm/Norman_Mailer_Society |title=About the Norman Mailer Society |author=<!--none stated--> |date=2019 |website=Norman Mailer Society |publisher=Project Mailer |access-date=2019-11-22 |quote= |ref=harv }}</ref>

== Personal life ==
Susan Mailer lives with her husband in Santiago, Chile. She has nine siblings, three grown children, and four grandchildren.{{sfn|BookTrib|2019|}}

== References ==
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==Bibliography==
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* {{cite web |url=https://booktrib.com/2019/11/in-another-place-paints-portrait-of-norman-mailer-as-a-father/ |title='In Another Place' Paints Portrait of Norman Mailer as a Father |author=BookTrib |date=November 4, 2019 |website=BookTrib |publisher= |access-date=2019-11-06 |quote= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=DePolo |first=Nicole |date=October 19, 2019 |title=Review: ''In Another Place: With and Without my Father Norman Mailer'' by Susan Mailer |url=https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/10/review-in-another-place-with-and-without-my-father-norman-mailer-by-susan-mailer/ |magazine=Hippocampus Magazine |pages= |access-date=2019-10-20 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite serial |title=Kim Neustrom, Lydia Pine, Susan Mailer |episode= |last1=Engster |first1=Jim (host) |url=https://www.wrkf.org/post/monday-october-21st-kim-neustrom-lydia-pine-susan-mailer |series=Talk Louisiana |credits= |network= |station=WRKF |date=October 21, 2019 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite serial |title=Susan Mailer |episode= |last1=Funke |first1=Erika (host) |url=https://soundcloud.com/wvia-public-media/susan-mailer-november-08-2019 |series=Art Scene |credits= |network= |station=WVIA |date=November 8, 2019 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite magazine |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |date=October 1, 2019 |title=INTERVIEW: Susan Mailer, author of ''In Another Place: With and Without My Father, Norman Mailer'' |url=https://www.hippocampusmagazine.com/2019/10/interview-susan-mailer-author-of-in-another-place-with-and-without-my-father-norman-mailer/ |magazine=Hippocampus Magazine |author-link=J. Michael Lennon |access-date=2019-10-02 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Lennon |first=J. Michael |authormask=1 |date=2013 |title=Norman Mailer: A Double Life |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MlftBAAAQBAJ |location=New York |publisher=Simon and Schuster |isbn=1439150214 |oclc=873006264 |ref=harv }}
* {{cite book |last=Mailer |first=Susan |date=2019 |title=In Another Place: With and Without My Father Norman Mailer |url= |location=Northampton House Press |publisher= |pages= |isbn=1937997979 |author-link= |ref=harv }}
* {{cite serial |title=Susan Mailer Author of In Another Place and Daughter of Norman |episode= |last1=Milam |first1=Stan (host) |url=https://www.wclo.com/episode/10-25-2019-susan-mailer-author-of-in-another-place-and-daughter-of-norman/ |series=Stan Milam Show |credits= |network= |station=WCLO |date=October 25, 2019 |ref=harv }}
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== External links ==
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* [https://susanmailer.com/ Official Web Site]

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