Amy Siskind, Ph.D.

Amy Siskind, Ph.D., received her Ph.D. in sociology from the New School for Social Research in 1995. She has written extensively about The Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall community—a group she belonged to for twenty-two years. In June of 2003 her book, The Sullivan Institute/Fourth Wall Community: From Radical Individualism to Authoritarianism was published by Praeger Publishers. She has also written about the effects of totalistic groups on children and the conditions within these groups that can result in child abuse and neglect. Amy taught in the Children’s Studies program at Brooklyn College from 2001 - 2006. She currently works as a Senior Research Associate at the Michael Cohen Group, LLC in New York City and lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.

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