Female Experience: Three Generations of British Women Psychoanalysts on Work with Women - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415157706 ISBN 13: 9780415157704

Publisher: Routledge, 1997

Synopsis

Since Freud, all psychoanalysts have been aware of the constraints of gender which are manifested as transference in the therapeutic process.
In Female Experience, fifteen contributors from different theoretical groupings discuss their experiences in working with female patients, covering subjects such as:
* sexual abuse
* eating disorders
* childbearing
* perinatal loss and postnatal depression
* the mother and child relationship
The analysis of women by women has made a valuable contribution to the development of psychoanalysis. The insight this gives into the determinants of gender identity will be of interest to practising psychotherapists both male and female, and to gender studies and therapy students.

About this title

Synopsis

Brings together diverse contributions offering detailed clinical accounts, engaging with female bodily representations, unconscious phantasies and desires, and discussing accounts of psychic experiences across the life cycle.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415157706
• ISBN 13: 9780415157704
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Perelberg Rosine Jozef, Raphael-Leff Joan