A theoretical psychoanalytic interpretation of the psychological dimension of the processes summed up under the general term of sexual life of women, written during 1923-24. Translated from the German by Eric Mosbacher, and edited with an introduction by Paul Roazen. Annotation copyright Book News

Helene Deutsch was one of the most famous psychoanalysts to emerge from Freud's immediate circle in Vienna. Best known for her writings on female psychology, she was also one of the great teachers of psychoanalysis. As the founding president of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Training Institute, she confirmed her stature in the history of psychoanalysis by cultivating a whole younger generation of influential analysts. Deutsch was tolerant and open-minded, both as a theoretician and teacher, but, as Paul Roazen remarks in his introduction, independence and an absence of fanaticism can mean a...