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Female experience : three generations of British women psychoanalysts on work with women

Title: Female experience : three generations of British women psychoanalysts on work with women / edited by Joan Raphael-Leff and Rosine Jozef Perelberg ; foreword by Juliet Mitchell.
Publication: London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.

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xiv, 295 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Female Experience brings together contributions from three generations of female psychoanalysts writing about their own experiences of working with female patients and questioning the specific determinants of female sexuality and gender identity which have become central in psychoanalytic debate. The authors represent a cross-section of different theoretical orientations (Kleinian, Freudian and Independent) and also draw on varied professional backgrounds. Beginning with Freud, psychoanalysts have questioned the constraints of gender as manifested with transference and countertransference within the therapeutic process. However, explorations have focused on cross-gender alliances. The contributors to this book present detailed material pertaining exclusively to the analytic relation between women. The insight this book gives into female analyst's special way of listening to and understanding women's preoccupations serves to illustrate why British analysts have made such a huge contribution to the psychoanalytic gender debate in recent years. The editors are both full members of the British Psycho-Analytical Society and the International Psychoanalytical Association.

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Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

PART I. THE PRIMITIVE TIE TO THE MOTHER AND ITS MANIFESTATIONS IN THE TRANSFERENCE AND COUNTERTRANSFERENCE. Introduction to Part I / Rosine Jozef Perelberg ; The analysis of women by a woman analyst : what does a woman want? / Enid Balint ; Female to female : the symbiotic loneliness / Maria A. Tallandini ; 'To be - or not to be - here': a woman's denial of time and memory / Rosine Jozef Perelberg ; Maternal ties in an adolescent with bulimia nervosa / Catalina Bronstein ; Analytic treatment of an adolescent with bulimia nervosa / Marion Burgner ; Working with an anorexic patient / Dana Birksted-Breen -- PART II. REACTIVATION OF EARLY REPRESENTATIONS IN CHILDBEARING. Introduction to Part II / Joan Raphael-Leff ; The relevance of early psychic development to pregnancy and abortion / Dinora Pines ; Creativity and Fertility: the one-parent phantasy / Paola Mariotti ; Mutual admiration between mother and baby: a folie a deux? / Deborah Steiner ; 'The water under the earth': understanding maternal depression / Maggie Mills ; Inhibition of mourning and the replacement child syndrome / Alicia Etchegoyen -- PART III: FEMALE EXPERIENCE IN THE PSYCHOANALYTIC PROCESS. Introduction to Part III / Rosin Jozef Perelberg ; Womanliness as a masquerade / Joan Riviere ; 'The casket and the key': thoughts on creativity, gender and generative identity / Joan Raphael-Leff ; Is the Oedipus complex bad news for women? / Jane Temperley ; Gender-linked issues in psychotherapy with abused and learning disabled female patients / Valerie Sinason.

ISBN

0415157692
9780415157698
0415157706
9780415157704

LCCN

96040328

OCLC

ocm36086808
36086808
SCSB-2130424

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Princeton University Library