Jessica Zucker has conducted research on women's reproductive and sexual health for over a decade. Dr. Zucker's writing on female sexuality began during her master's degree program in international public health and continued to evolve while pursuing a master's degree in developmental psychology at Harvard University. While there she conducted a small-scale qualitative study on female identity development and sexual health. Dr. Zucker's doctoral dissertation expanded on previous interests and expertise in women's health. Her dissertation is titled "The Relational Body: Vicissitudes of the Mother-Daughter Attachment and Sexual Subjectivity in Pornography". She interviewed 20 women who work as actors in pornography in the Los Angeles area. Her writing has garnered three awards.   

Jessica presented her research on female embodiment, sexual development, and the daughtering experience in pornography at the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis meeting as an invited panelist in 2008 in New York City. She collaborated with Drs. Muriel Dimen, Katie Gentile, and Virginia Goldner. The title of her paper is "Lights, Camera, Attachment: Female Embodiment as Seen Through the Lens of Pornography".

Dr. Zucker contributed a chapter to "Knowing and Not-Knowing and Sort-of-Knowing: Psychoanalysis and the Experience of Uncertainty", a forthcoming anthology published by Karnac Books (2010) based on her ethnographic research on women in pornography, female sexuality, and the complexity of mother-daughter attachment relationships - edited by Dr. Jean Petrucelli. Other contributing authors include, among others: Drs. Philip Bromberg, James Fosshage, Katie Gentile, and Allan Schore. 

Dr. Jessica Zucker has been invited to speak at the American Psychological Association's Division of Psychoanalysis meeting in Chicago in 2010 in association with her Karnac Books publication.

Jessica is a PBS featured blogger for This Emotional Life. Her blog addresses issues pertaining to transitions in parenting, infant-caregiver attachment relationships, and postpartum mood disorders. In conjunction with her involvement in PBS, Dr. Zucker was interviewed by Therese Borchard of Beyond Blue about attachment, motherhood, and establishing healthy relationships. This article can also be found on Psych Central. She is a contributing blogger on The Huffington Post in association with the PBS project. Dr. Zucker is an advising consultant in the development of the PBS Early Attachment Toolkit Early Moments Matter.

Dr. Zucker is a contributing writer for Mindful Mama. Mindful Mama is a cutting-edge social media platform for holistic parenting. The aim is to integrate the depth and inspiration of a favorite magazine into a collaborative and nurturing online space, connecting parents with birth and healthcare practitioners who share the common goal of building healthy families. Pathways Magazine will publish Dr. Zucker's article "Connecting with Baby Before Birth" in the Spring Issue 2010.

Jessica is the featured psychological expert on MyBestBirth, founded by Abby Epstein and Ricki Lake, the creators of the documentary The Business of Being Born. "Ask Dr. Jessica" is an online interactive column that explores issues related to pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and mothering.