Psychoanalytic Perspectives on Women

ISBN-13: 9780876306550 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 149 str.

Elaine V. Siegel; Elanie Siegel; V. Siegel Elanie

Opis

This collection of case studies and essays presents Freudian and post Freudian psychoanalytic views of how women develop. Laura Arens Fuerstein traces the histories of women who had distant, cold, dominant mothers and who subsequently developed ties to abusive men. Carolyn Celentano examines the lives of women who had suffocating, intrusive mothers. Ronald W.Levin explains how medical treatment can exacerbate psychosomatic symptoms in patients who had troubled interactions with both parents. Kenneth R.King and Theodore L.Dorpat present an account of an analysis of a father-daughter incest victim. An essay by Florence Holland, written 20 years ago and now published posthumously, discusses why some women become homosexuals. Susan Kavaler-Adler presents object relations insights into Emily Dickinson's life and work. Sidney M. Rosenblatt and Penny W. Caccavo analyze the symbolism in fairy tales about the evolution of a girl into a woman.

Spis treści

Introduction, Females in Bondage: The Early Role of Mother and Father in the Woman’s Tie to Abusive Men, The Encapsulated Maternal Introject: In the Service of Survival, Somatic Symptoms, Psychoanalytic Treatment, Emotional Growth, Daddy’s Girl: An Interactional Perspective on the Transference of Defense in the Psychoanalysis of a Case of Father-Daughter Incest, Aspects of Homosexuality, Object Relations Insights Concerning the Female as Artist. Thumbelina and the Development of Female Sexuality, The Forbidden Room: A Pair of Fairy Tales as Developmental Metaphor.

O autorze

Elaine V. Siegel, Ph.D. Senior analyst and former board member at The New York Center for Psychoanalytic Training. She has published widely and lectures on human development and psychoanalysis both here and abroad.