Public Biography
Dr. Judith Fenn-Caraway is a licensed clinical psychologist in Ridgewood, New Jersey, specializing in marital and couples communication. She has maintained a private practice in Bergen County for an estimated twenty-two years and holds an adjunct appointment in the Department of Psychology at Rutgers University, where she teaches a graduate seminar titled “Language, Silence, and the Domestic Interior.”
Dr. Fenn-Caraway received her Ph.D. in clinical psychology from the University of Pennsylvania in 2002, where her dissertation examined what she termed “conversational non-sequiturs as relational strategy in long-term cohabitating couples.” She is the author of You’re Not Listening and Neither Am I: Communication Failures in the American Marriage (Basic Books, 2018), which spent three weeks on the New York Times paperback nonfiction list and was described by Psychology Today as “the most depressing book about marriage that is somehow also the most accurate.”
She has been quoted in numerous publications on the subject of domestic communication breakdown and has testified as an expert witness in four divorce proceedings in Bergen County Superior Court, each of which she has described as “entirely preventable and completely inevitable.”
Dr. Fenn-Caraway lives in Glen Rock, New Jersey, with her husband, whom she has described in interviews as “a good man who occasionally says things that have nothing to do with what we are talking about.”