Publications

  • Baker-Pitts, C. (2021). “Deadweight: Unpacking Fat Shame in Psychotherapy,” in L. Brown, Weight Bias in Health Education: Critical Perspectives for Pedagogy and Practice. New York: Routledge.
  • Baker-Pitts, C. & Martin, D. (2021). “Realness with a Twist: LGBTQ Creativity in the Ballroom,” in Journal of Studies in Gender and Sexuality
  • Baker-Pitts, C. (2019). “The Feminist Future is Nonbinary,” in Room: A Sketchbook for Analytic Action.
  • Baker-Pitts, C. (2019). “Dreaming of Maine,” in Maine Women Magazine.
  • Baker-Pitts, C. (2015). “Look at Me…What am I Supposed to Be?” in J. Petrucelli (Ed.), Body States. Routledge.
  • Baker-Pitts, C. et al. (2015). “The Acquisition of a Body: Establishing a New Paradigm and Introducing the Clinical Tool–Body Observational Diagnostic Interview,” in J. Petrucelli (Ed.), Body States. New York: Routledge.
  • Baker-Pitts, C. (2014). “Still Dangerous: Women and Public Speaking,” Psychoanalytic Perspectives.
  • Baker-Pitts, C. (2007). “Two Bodies in the Room: An Intersubjective View of Female Objectification,” in Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 12 124-141.
  • Baker, C. (2000). Fed Up: College Students and Eating Problems. Gurze.
  • Baker, C. (1998). Building ESTEEM. Duke Student Health.
  • Baker, C. (1993). The Perfection Trap. Duke Student Health
  • Baker, C. (1991). Starving for Help. Eastern Maine Medical Center.

Presentations
abbreviated

  • Gender Trauma, Mental Health, New York University, March 8, 2022
  • Sisterhood, Speaker and Conference Organizer, New Directions Writing Program, Washington DC, May 5-7, 2023
  • Realness: The LGBTQ Ballroom, Speaker and Symposium Organizer, NYU Committee on Gender and Sexualities, May 10, 2019.
  • Eating Problems and Gendered Embodiment, NYU School of Social Work, March 8, 2019
  • Me-Too, Introduction to memorial lecture hosted by The Women’s Therapy Center Institute, May 19, 2018
  • Family Legacies: The Stories We Tell, Speaker and Conference Organizer, New Directions Writing Program, Washington DC, October 13-15, 2016
  • Are Men Marginalized?: A Debate about Gender and Recognition in the Treatment and Prevention of Eating Disorders, Renfrew Conference Keynote, with Leigh Cohn and Michael Levine, PhD, Philadelphia, November 8, 2015
  • Cutting Down: Fat Panic and Weight Loss Surgery, Institute for Contemporary Psychotherapy, NYC, February 27, 2015; 
  • Fat Bodies, March 8, 2014 
  • Full of Herself, Franklin & Marshall College, Lancaster, PA, February 28, 2014
  • The Most Unkindest Cut of All, Women’s Mental Health Coalition, New York City, March 23, 2013
  • The Body Plastic, Professional Coalition of Occupational Therapists, New York City, March 25, 2013
  • Cut Down to Size: Women and Weight Loss Surgery, Binge Eating Disorder Association, March 8, 2013
  • Split Into Parts, The William Alanson White Institute, December 4, 2012, New York City
  • Is Love Blind? Seeing and Being Seen in Relationships, Berkeley College and Paradigm Shift, January 26, 2012
  • Introducing a Clinical tool: The Bodiography, CUNY conference, The BODI Group April 8, 2011
  • States of Embodiment, William Alanson White Institute, The BODI Group, April 8, 2011
  • Fixed?: Deflated Dreams of Cosmetic Surgery, New York Presbyterian Hospital, December 21, 2010
  • Body-to-Body: A Relational View of Eating Disorders, Self-Harm, and Cosmetic Surgery, National Association of Social Workers, NYC, November 8, 2010
  • A Life Expanded or Constrained: Considerations for Bariatric Patients, Hahnemann University Hospital, Grand Rounds, Philadelphia, PA, April 6, 2010
  • The Relational Body: Cosmetic Surgery, Attachment, and Psychotherapy, The Age of the Plastic Body Conference, Kwantien Polytechnic University, Surrey, British Columbia, March 12, 2010
  • Can a Body Age?, International Association of Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, San Francisco, CA, February 25, 2010
  • Cosmetic Surgery: An Attachment Perspective, Attachment Society, Philadelphia, PA, November 13, 2009
  • Malleable Minds, Plastic Bodies: Women and Cosmetic Surgery, Laurie Phillips Memorial Lecture, Mt. Sinai, hosted by The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, NYC, April 24, 2009
  • Psychoanalysis and Cosmetic Surgery, The Freud Museum, June 27, 2009, London, England
  • More than ‘Face Value’: Probing the Psychological Depths of Cosmetic Surgery, Cosmetic Cultures Conference, The University of Leeds, June 24, 2009, Leeds, England
  • Seeing You, Seeing Me, The BODI Group, The William Alanson White Institute, May 5, 2009, New York City
  • In Relationship: A contemporary psychoanalytic approach along the continuum of care, The Renfrew Foundation Conference, November 14, 2008
  • Under the Knife: Women and Cosmetic Surgery, American Association for Psychoanalysis in Social Work, Workshop Presentation, Spring 2009
  • Seeing You, Seeing Me, Attachment Body Group, American Psychological Association, Division 39 Conference, Panel Presentation, April 9, 2008, New York City
  • Two Bodies in Mind: An Intersubjective View of Embodiment, International Association of Relational Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy, Paper Presentation, May 29, 2009, Baltimore, MD
  • Fixed: Women and Cosmetic Surgery, Hope for Hard Times: Anxiety, Alienation, & Activism Conference. The Association for the Psychoanalysis of Culture and Society, , November 2, 2007, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
  • Conspicuous Consumption: Women and Cosmetic Surgery, The Women’s Therapy Centre Institute, Workshop for Clinicians, February 22, 2008, New York City
  • The Therapist’s Body, Seminar for training analysts and candidates, The William Alanson White Institute, 2007, New York City