"Sue Erikson Bloland illuminates how fame affects the dazzled public,
those closest to the celebrity, and the celebrity himself.
Howard Gardner, Harvard professor and author

In the Shadow of Fame, by the daughter of world-renowned psychoanalyst and
theorist Erik Erikson, is the intimate story of her struggle to come to terms with her
fathers fame and to develop a sense of self in a familyand worldin which being
famous is the very definition of being a worthwhile human being. And, while her story
is unique in its personal details, it is also a description of the struggle faced by all of
us in a modern world.

Sue Erikson Bloland did graduate work in both anthropology and sociology before obtaining her master's degree in social work from New York University and her certificate in psychoanalysis from the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis. She has written for the Atlantic Monthly and Psychoanalytic Dialogues and has given numerous lectures on fame. A practicing psychotherapist in New York City and a faculty member at the Manhattan Institute for Psychoanalysis, she lives in Lanesville, New York.