Kathi N. Miner, PhD

In her first popular press book, The Committed Professor, A Memoir, My Fall from the Lectern to the Psych Ward, Dr. Miner tells the true story of the moment she found out about her husband’s infidelity to her being “committed” to a psychiatric hospital because of his prolonged narcissistic abuse. She was a professor of Psychology and Women’s and Gender Studies at Texas A&M University when she discovered her husband’s double life of betrayal. As she began to discover more of his disloyalty and deceit, she realized his cheating was only the tip of the iceberg. In her narrative of events, she links her experiences to larger patriarchal societal structures related to gender, marriage, and divorce. She exposes by personal example how difficult divorce is for women because it is embedded in a system of sexism and misogyny. Her story demonstrates that anyone, including strong, educated, feminist women, can be involved in abusive relationships and that male privilege plays a critical role in the process of divorcing abusive men.