Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Women

Author : Stephanie Brody,Frances Arnold
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317551546

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership by Stephanie Brody,Frances Arnold Pdf

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership considers how these factors can be understood, nurtured, or thwarted and the subsequent impact on women’s identity, authority and satisfaction. Psychoanalysis has long struggled with its ideas about women, about who they are, how to work with them, and how to respect and encourage what women want. This book argues that psychoanalytic theory and practice must evolve to maintain its relevance in a volatile landscape. Each section of the book begins with a chapter that reviews contemporary ideas regarding women, as well as psychoanalytic history, gender bias, and societal norms and deficits. Three composite clinical stories allow our distinguished contributors to discuss the contexts within which individual experience can be affected, and the role that clinical work may have to mobilize and advance passion and vitality. In their discussions, the interplay of clinical psychoanalysis, sociopolitical context, and understanding of gender, combine to offer a unique perspective, built on decades of scholarship, personal experience, and clinical expertise. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Their Experience of Desire, Ambition and Leadership will serve as a reference for all psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists as well as gender studies scholars interested in the progress of psychoanalytic theory regarding women in the 21st century. Contributors to this book include: Rosemary Balsam, Brenda Bauer, Andrea Celenza, Diane Elise, Adrienne Harris, Dorothy Holmes, Nancy Kulish, Vivian Pendar, Dionne Powell, and Arlene Richards.

Author : Danielle Redland
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-05-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781000061123

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women, Menstruation and Secondary Amenorrhea by Danielle Redland Pdf

"I can be a mother, a wife, a daughter, a sister and a woman without having periods." This book explores two of the oldest and most important symbols of all time: menstruation and secondary amenorrhea. Women of menstruating age commonly experience secondary amenorrhea – a cessation of periods – but most people have never heard of the term, nor do they realise what it represents. Danielle Redland’s curiosity as to why this is posits that menstrual conditions need to be decoded, not just simply treated. Surveying menstruation and Secondary Amenorrhea (SA) principally from a psychoanalytic perspective, with sociocultural, historical, political and religious angles also examined, Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women, Menstruation and Secondary Amenorrhea draws secondary amenorrhea out of the shadows of its menstruating counterpart, and explores how narratives of womanhood and statehood dominate. Chapters on blood ideology and war amenorrhea, on Freud’s treatment of Emma Eckstein and on the psycho-mythology of Pygmalion, present the reader with visions beyond patriarchy towards more thoughtful ideas on the feminine, challenging assumptions about gender, identity and what is deemed "good" for women. Rich in clinical examples, the book locates menses and their cessation at the heart of personal experience and examines psychosomatic phenomena, the link between psyche and body and the value of interpretation. From the author’s own analysis to a variety of cases linked to hysteria, anorexia, stress, trauma, abuse, helplessness and hopelessness, individual stories and narratives are sensitively recovered and carefully revealed. This refreshing example of multi-layered research and psychoanalytic enquiry by a new, female writer will be of great interest to psychologists, psychotherapists, healthcare and social work professionals and readers of gender studies, history, politics and literature.

Author : Paula L. Ellman,Jhuma Basak,Gertraud Schlessinger-Kipp
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2021-07-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429594144

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Psychoanalytic and Socio-Cultural Perspectives on Women in India by Paula L. Ellman,Jhuma Basak,Gertraud Schlessinger-Kipp Pdf

This important book provides a bridge between psychoanalytic perspectives and socio-cultural issues to shine a spotlight on the experiences of women in India today. Women’s well-being and security has often depended upon their gender positioning while other binaries like rural-urban, class, and caste have also played a crucial role globally and especially in India. Historically, women have been subjected to various forms of oppression that include sex selective abortions, domestic violence, bride burning for dowry, and acid attacks. Threats to women’s security have recently increased with progressive polarization and hardening of socio-political and cultural ideologies. This book assesses how women’s lives are impacted by these social and cultural conventions and stigma, including ideas around motherhood, religion, intimacy and femininity itself, and the psychological implications these have. Topics include the seduction of religion, motherhood in contemporary times, intimacy and violence, and fundamentalist states of mind in the clinical space. While the book echoes a regional specificity, it simultaneously resonates a backdrop of global change of affairs that has its impact on ideological freedom and the concept of inclusivity in terms of gender, race, culture, and politics across the world. For this comprehensive perspective, the effort is to create a platform of authors comprising psychoanalysts, social scientists, scholars from the liberal arts discipline, as well as social activists. In a country where women have been historically subjected to both psychological and physical oppression, this timely and original book will interest a range of scholars interested in gender, mental health and contemporary Indian society, as well as clinicians in the field.

Author : Rossella Valdrè
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351793049

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction by Rossella Valdrè Pdf

Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction psychoanalytically examines contemporary fiction portraying the female in a reversal of the stereotyped victim role. The recent popularity of powerful female characters suggests that literature is ahead in its understanding the desires, fantasies and unconscious emotions of the public. This book explores a form of intimacy frequently observed in consulting rooms and in life in general: malicious intimacy. Specific to the conjugal bond, it is a type of intimacy connected to the relationship between the two halves of the couple that is extremely powerful and painful. Instead of clinical cases, Rossella Valdré examines four contemporary and widely successful novels, published contemporaneously, which capture perfectly this type of psychopathological universe. Valdré then maps out psychoanalytic hypotheses regarding the persistency of these malicious intimacies. Through analysis of these examples, Valdrè investigates the roots and hypotheses of a new scenario on victim-executioner roles played out in the intimacy of the couple. Exploring how and if the contemporary couple is undergoing profound changes, she provides an overview of the various deep-seated psychological mechanisms and unconscious dynamics that may be at work. The book explores the need to not be dependant upon a love object as an extreme defence against abandonment or self-collapse. Valdrè argues that such a configuration is very common, and that Idealization in contemporary life is one of the reasons behind the most of sufferance in modern couples, something which psychoanalysis can examine through art. Women, perhaps, after emancipation, are living overturned roles and paying a higher cost as a result. Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women and Power in Contemporary Fiction will appeal to psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and be of interest to scholars and students of literature, gender studies, philosophy and sociology.

Author : Elanie V. Siegel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781317736783

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Psychoanalytic Perspectives On Women by Elanie V. Siegel Pdf

First published in 1992. A collection of case studies and essays which present new Freudian and post- Freudian psychoanalytic views on how women develop. Contributors look at women who had cold, dominant mothers and at women who had suffocating, intrusive mothers, at why some women become homosexuals and more.

Author : Elaine Baruch
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1992-10
Category : Health & Fitness
ISBN : 9780814711996

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Women, Love, and Power by Elaine Baruch Pdf

Elaine Baruch is not only among the most quiet-voiced and fair-minded of feminist writers. She is also among the most far-ranging in her scholarship, equally at ease with the writers of the Renaissance and Freud, the medieval troubadours, and our contemporary polemicists. . . instructive, absorbing, and persuasive. --Diana Trilling A lively mind is at work here and a keen and witty writer too. --Irving HoweThis is a fine collection of essays. . . making many imaginative conjectures and amusing connections. --Times Literary SupplementIn these essays what emerges is a history of romantic love. . . Highly recommended.--Library Journal Arguing that romantic love need not be a tool of women's oppression, feminist critic Baruch. . . contends that unacknowledged male fantasies about love motivate much literature by men. . . rewarding, provocative.--Publishers Weekly Utilizing both Freudian and non-Freudian psychoanalysis as well as feminist criticism, Baruch examines literary works by women and men from medieval and Romantic periods as well as cultural observations on the twentieth century and how they have influenced attitudes toward love.

Author : Judith L. Alpert
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135061890

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Psychoanalysis and Women by Judith L. Alpert Pdf

Within the psychoanalytic framework, there is a growing body of research and thinking about female development. In addition, there is ongoing research within other areas of psychology, such as developmental psychology and social psychology, which has important implications for an understanding of women's adult development. Often these research findings are not readily available to the analytic community, nor has much of the research been incorporated into a psychoanalytic framework. Psychoanalysis and Women broadens analytic thinking by integrating contemporary literature from psychoanalysis with that of other areas, both within and outside psychology, which has implications for the undertanding of women's development. This literature is conceptualized within a psychoanalytic framework. A basic premise underlying this book is that psychoanalysis needs continuing review and revision in terms of what women and men are about and a continuing focus on whether and how unfounded biases prevent analysts from understanding patients. The present volume considers how sexism and feminism are affecting psychoanalysis and exemplifies how the emerging field of psychoanalysis of women and the issues its existence raises should be conceptualized. It also exemplifies some of the positive contributions that a feminist outlook gives to the study of human behavior and should esxpand the range of hypotheses that we have about people.

Author : Eleanor Schuker,Nadine A. Levinson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020-09-23
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781000149074

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Female Psychology by Eleanor Schuker,Nadine A. Levinson Pdf

This book provides a psychoanalytic perspective on female psychology and includes articles with divergent theoretical viewpoints. It is useful for both research and clinical study and may also provide a bridge to scholars, teachers, and clinicians outside of psychoanalysis itself.

Author : Celia Harding
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Psicoanálisis - Historia - Siglo XX
ISBN : 9780415220972

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Sexuality by Celia Harding Pdf

A comprehensive and accessible introduction to sexuality in psychoanalysis. In the book, a range of distinguished contributors challenge the view that sexuality is nothing other than historically and culturally determined.

Author : Taylor & Francis Group
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0367327635

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The Courage to Fight Violence Against Women by Taylor & Francis Group Pdf

This book shows how violence against woman can be seen, known and represented on the world stage and in psychoanalytic treatment. It brings psychoanalytic ideas and understanding in an effort to comprehend violence against women.

Author : Hada Soria Escalante
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-13
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781793605801

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Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis by Hada Soria Escalante Pdf

Rethinking the Relation between Women and Psychoanalysis: Loss, Mourning, and the Feminine uses contemporary psychoanalytic views to resituate women as desiring subjects within the psychoanalytic narrative. Contributors to this edited collection explore the various configurations of mourning, pain, regret, and grieving in diverse societies and cultures in order to reconstruct the role of women in modern psychoanalysis. They raise questions about the status of women in culture and society and contend with themes that psychoanalysts have associated with women since the late nineteenth century, such as loss and mourning, femininity and motherhood, and desire and sexuality. This book is recommended for students and scholars of psychology, gender studies, cultural studies, literature, and philosophy.

Author : Arnold D. Richards,Phyllis Tyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Femininity
ISBN : UCSC:32106013972325

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The Psychology of Women by Arnold D. Richards,Phyllis Tyson Pdf

Description of Content: Contemporary Images of Women in Contemporary Women's Art; Female Psychology in Progress; Female Psychology: an Introduction; Freud and Feminine Subjectivity; Freud and the Repudiation of the Feminine; Feminist Psychoanalytic Theory; Nature, Nurture, and Core Gender Identity; Unconscious Representation of Femininity; A Reconsideration of object Choice in Women: Phallus or Fallacy; Beyond the He and She: Toward the Reconciliation of Masculinity and Femininity in the Postoedipal Female Mind; From Nothing to Something to Everything: Bisexuality and Metaphors of the Mind; Theoretical Gender and Clinical Gender; The Meaning of Perineal Activity to Women: The Inner Sphinx; Primary Femininity and Female Genital Anxiety; Castration Anxiety or Feminine Genital Anxiety?; Nevermore: The Hymen and the Loss of Virginity; Masturbation Fantasies in a Prelatency Girl; A Revised Psychoanalytic View of Menopause; Pregnancy--Procreative Process; The Pregnant Mother and the Body Image of the Daughter; On Motherhood; Two Woman and Their Mothers; Toward Further Analytic Understanding of Lesbian Patients; A Psychoanalytic Research Group's Inquiry into Female Sexuality; Can We Be Both Women & Analysts?

Author : Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-26
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780429913662

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Female Sexuality by Janine Chasseguet-Smirgel Pdf

Female Sexuality represents a distinct contribution to the psychoanalytic study of feminine psychology and sexual identity. First published in France as Recherches psychanalytiques nouvelles sur la sexualite feminine, the book consists of six major essays and a comprehensive introduction which reviews the various approaches to the subject. Freudian and non-Freudian views on female sexuality are carefully examined, thus providing a valuable perspective from which to view the authors' subsequent discussions. "The present authors," writes Dr J. Chasseguet-Smirgel in her introduction, "have attempted as far as possible to free their theoretical ideas and their clinical interpretations from the unconscious fantasies which distort scientific objectivity. "Christian David thus uses a clinical history to study masculine myths about femininity; Catherine Luquet-Parat attributes an important role to female masochism in the young girl's "change of object"; Bela Grunberger examines the origins of female narcissism.

Author : Jean Strouse
Publisher : G. K. Hall
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Social Science
ISBN : IND:30000113529014

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Women & Analysis by Jean Strouse Pdf

Author : Dinora Pines
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2010-02-25
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781136969188

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A Woman's Unconscious Use of Her Body by Dinora Pines Pdf

Drawing on Dinora Pines’ lifetime of clinical experience this classic book provides a psychoanalytic understanding of women’s relationships with their bodies, focusing on key moments in women’s lives. With chapters organised to follow the female life-cycle, topics covered include: the turbulence of adolescence pregnancy and childbirth infertility and abortion menopause and old age the traumatic effects of surviving the Holocaust. With a foreword from Susie Orbach, this book will be of interest to mental health professionals including counsellors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.