Harriet Fraad

Harriet Louise Fraad (born August 19, 1941) is an American feminist activist, psychotherapist and hypnotherapist in New York City. She has been practicing as a psychotherapist and hypnotherapist for 37 years. She is said to be a founding member of the Feminist movement, owed in part to her founding of the Women's Liberation Movement in 1968. She is the founder of the journal Rethinking Marxism and specializes in writing about the intersection between economics and psychology.

Personal life Harriet Louise Fraad was born to Jewish parents, Lewis M. Fraad, a pediatrician, and Irma London, who both had leftist sympathies. She is married to Marxian economist and intellectual Richard D. Wolff. Wolff and Fraad have two children together. She and Wolff co-write for Economy and Psychology, a blog on the interface of those two topics.

Fraad's uncle was Ephraim London, Irma's brother, and through him, her maternal cousin was Sheila Michaels, a feminist and activist, whom Ephraim never publicly acknowledged as his daughter.

In media

Books Class Struggle on the Home Front, (w/Stephen Resnick & Richard Wolff), New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 Imagine Living in a Socialist USA: Imagine…Personal Emotional and Sexual Life Without Capitalism (w/Tess Fraad Wolff), (Edited F. Goldin, D. & S. Smith), New York: HarperCollins, Jan 2014. It's Not Just in Your Head Regular guest on Economic Update with Richard D. Wolff Regular guest on The David Feldman Show Interpersonal Update (w/Tess Fraad Wolff), formerly broadcast on WBAI-FM, New York, Thursdays, 1-2PM EST