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.
Currently she teaches in the Children’s Studies program at Brooklyn College and
lives in Brooklyn with her husband and daughter.
