Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis: Girls of Tomorrow

ISBN-13: 9780367650865 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 202 str.

Anna Borgos

Opis

This book explores the life, scholarly oeuvre and intellectual connections of the significant ‘first generation’ Hungarian female psychoanalysts, situating their lives within the wider context of social history and the history of psychoanalysis.

Spis treści

Chapter One: Psychoanalysis in Hungary; Chapter Two: Women in the Budapest School of Psychoanalysis; Chapter Three: From the Galileo Circle to the Pavlov Committee: Lilly Hajdu; Chapter Four: Against the Current: Edit Gyömrői; Chapter Five: Attachment and a Sense of Reality: Alice Bálint; Chapter Six: The "Guardian Angel" of Hungarian Psychoanalysis: Vilma Kovács; Chapter Seven: Child Development and Female Sexuality: Lillián Rotter; Chapter Eight: A Promising Talent: Erzsébet Kardos; Chapter Nine: Further Portraits; Chapter Ten: Conclusions

O autorze

Anna Borgos is a psychologist and women’s historian, working as a research fellow in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Psychology, Budapest. She holds a PhD in psychology from the University of Pécs. She is the editor in chief of the Hungarian psychoanalytic journal, Imágó Budapest. She has published several books and articles in Hungarian women’s history, mostly connecting to literature, psychoanalysis and sexuality. Most recently she co-edited a volume with Ferenc Erős and Júlia Gyimesi, Psychology and Politics: Intersections of Science and Ideology in the History of Psy-Sciences (2019).