Psychoanalysis and Women: Contemporary Reappraisals

ISBN-13: 9780881631913 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 340 str.

Judith L. Alpert

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Contributors -- Foreword /Esther Menaker -- Introduction /Judith L. Alpert -- Overview -- 1 Women s Development in Analytic Theory: Six Decades of Controversy /Zenia Odes Fliegel -- 2 The Gendered Self: A Lost Maternal Legacy /Susan Spieler -- 3 Some Notes on the Development of Female Gender Role Identity /Adria E. Schwartz -- Freudian Theory e3 Beyond -- 4 Morality, Gender, and Analysis /Judith L. Alpert, Jody Boghossian Spencer -- 5 The Alienation of Desire: Women's Masochism and Ideal Love /Jessica Benjamin -- 6 Learning the Lines: Women s Aging and Self Esteem /Ruth Formanek -- Female Patient -- 7 Professional Success: A Conflict for Women /Ruth Moulton -- 8 Autonomy: A Conflict for Women /Dorothy Litwin -- 9 Lesbian Choice: Transferences to Theory /Ruth-Jean Eisenbud -- Female Analyst -- 10 The "Impossible Profession" Considered from a Gender Perspective /Zeborah Schachtel -- 11 Developing a New Narrative: The Woman Therapist and The Male Patient /Lisa K. Gornick -- 12 The Pregnant Therapist: Transference and Countertransference Issues /Linda S. Penn -- Epilogue /Judith L. Alpert -- Author Index Subject Index.

O autorze

Judith L. Alpert