Research Catalog

Title

Female identity conflict in clinical practice / by Doris Bernstein ; Norbert Freedman and Betsy Distler, editors ; with an introduction by Christopher Bollas.

Author

Bernstein, Doris, 1932-1990.

Publication

Northvale, N.J. : Jason Aronson, Inc., ©1993.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Freedman, Norbert.
• Distler, Betsy.

Description

xviii, 197 pages; 24 cm

Summary

TABLE OF CONTENTS: Portrait of an Analyst: Doris Bernstein (1932-1990). Norbert Freedman and Betsy Distler. 1 Gender-Specific Attribution of Identity. 2 Female Identity Synthesis. 3 Female Genital Anxieties, Conflicts, and Typical Mastery Modes. 4 The Female Superego: A Different Perspective. 5 The Female Oedipal Complex. 6 Gender Specific Dangers in the Female/Female Dyad in Treatment. 7 On Cinderella.

Series Statement

IPTAR monograph ; no. 2

Uniform Title

IPTAR monograph ; no. 2.

Subject

• Women > Psychology
• Women > Identity
• Identity (Psychology)
• Women and psychoanalysis
• Psychosexual development
• Gender identity
• Oedipus complex
• Superego
• Gender Identity
• Oedipus Complex
• Superego
• Women > psychology
• Psychosexual Development
• sex role
• Oedipus complex
• Gender identity
• Psychosexual development
• Women and psychoanalysis
• Women > Identity
• Women > Psychology
• Psychoanalyse
• Vrouwen
• Psicanalise
• Mulher e feminismo

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface / Daisy France -- Portrait of an Analyst: Doris Bernstein (1932-1990) / Norbert Freedman and Betsy Distler -- Introduction / Christopher Bollas -- 1. Gender-Specific Attribution of Identity / Doris Bernstein and Norbert Freedman. Developmental Considerations in Gender Specificity. Perspectives on Anxiety. The Shape of the Superego in Women. Gender Mythology, Fairy Tales, and the Oedipal Situation. Dyad: The Deepening of the Clinical Process -- 2. Female Identity Synthesis. Some Issues in Separation-Individuation. Aspects of Superego Development that Interfere with Autonomy. Problems in Forming Adaptive Identifications -- 3. Female Genital Anxieties, Conflicts, and Typical Mastery Modes. Access, Penetration, and Diffusivity Anxieties. Female Mastery Efforts. Inherent Conflicts. Genital Anxieties and Object Relationships -- 4. The Female Superego: A Different Perspective. Toward a Perspective on the Gender-Specific Superego.
• The Attributes of the Superego: Strength, Contents, and Structure. Gender Assignment and Body Experience. Narcissism and Identification. Clinical Documentation. Recapitulation: The Female Superego -- 5. The Female Oedipal Complex. Gender-Specific Conflicts during the Oedipal Phase. Genital Anxieties during the Oedipal Phase. Penis Envy from a "Differentiation Perspective" Father and Daughter. The Oedipal Dangers. Parental Relationships and Identification -- 6. Gender Specific Dangers in the Female/Female Dyad in Treatment. Analysts' Vulnerabilities. Clinical Documentation. The Emergence of Genital Anxieties in Dyadic Interaction -- 7. On Cinderella. 2 Cinderellas. Pretty and Sweet (Perrault). Forceful and Resourceful (Grimm). The Oedipal Phase through the Comparative Study of Myth.

ISBN

• 0876685025
• 9780876685020

LCCN

92048974

OCLC

• ocm26934623
• 26934623
• SCSB-1979738

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library